• death_to_carrotsEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Actually, a long time ago – it was the good old Wine 0.9.8 time – I suggested that one could use Wine on Windows (WoW basically) to get an old application to run. Which worked.

      The rational was that it worked on Linux with Wine, but no compat mode on Windows XP(?) was able to run this piece oft software.

      It was a wilder time back then.

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      4 days ago
      • install VMware on Windows
      • run virtual machine
      • install Linux in VM
      • install WINE
      • run Windows version of VMware
      • run virtual machine
      • install Linux in VM
      • install WINE
      • run Windows version of VMware …
    • homura1650@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Years ago, my employer had a timecard computer that people would remote desktop into to fill out there timecard every day, since the software wouldn’t run on modern windows (I think we were up to windows 10 at the time. One day, the old the old server finally died. For a while we emailed our hours until we found a solution. That solution ended up being a Fedora VM running the payroll software under Wine.

    • peppers_ghost@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I don’t think it’d be pointless on windows. I have better luck running 16 bit windows programs on wine than I do using modern windows.

      • accideath@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        No, but they are somewhat similar. macOS is based on freeBSD which is based on research unix.

        Linux is not based on unix but it was written to resemble unix very closely and work similar to it. There’s a lot of intercompatibility but they have different heritages.

  • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    121·
    3 days ago

    uhm the entire kde and gnome app ecosystem?
    some did get ported to Windows but its not the primary target and these ports usually have significant issues.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      it also misuses the meme. Top right is meant to ask Andy Samberg to name several examples, to which he is to respond with the name of a taxonomy or hierarchy that contains multiple examples of such.

    • SatyrSackEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      I work with plenty of developers who say “softwares” because English is not our first language

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Some of the only things I could think of would be desktop environments on their own, but I don’t have a clue whether they work on wsl considering I gave up on it real quick after flowblade didn’t work on it due to inexperience.

  • philluminati@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    Wine runs on Windows as is a good way to emulate some Windows 98 apps that no longer work in Windows 11 I’ve been told.

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Actually no, wine is pretty handy within wsl on windows to restrict windows apps to certain folders on your system

          • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Su isn’t on windows, and does the exact opposite to restricting filesystem access to a specific subset

            • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              su allows you to swap to another user in shell, not just make yourself root.

              ‘runas’ looks like it’d do just the job

              • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
                2·
                3 days ago

                runas can do that, yes. Now how are you planning yo also create that user in the same command line? And to dispose of it automatically when the process ends?

                • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
                  2·
                  3 days ago

                  runas can do that, yes. But it won’t make you a virtual file system, or give you a nat firewall.

                  One use case for this is the backblaze backup utility. It’s kinda stupid in that it has an all-or-nothing approach to backups.

                  Putting it in a container restricts it in a much easier and reliable way than running it with a special user account.