• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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    4 months ago

    Nah, Wine runs most XP-times software better, Windows 10+ sometimes not at all. Some people do hacks like running wine in WSL because of this.

    There goes your compatibility. Not to mention that Windows is probably the most incompatible OS (to the rest) in wide use (filesystem, non-POSIX, drivers, etc.)

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      4 months ago

      You’re full of shit. Wine still fails at basic Win32 API calls available since Windows 95 and most thing that fail under modern Windows versions are usually GPU related tasks like games and the fact that you don’t have specific DirectX or DirectPlay features available on your modern OS and/or GPU and those cases there’s dgVoodoo2.

      Do you really want to talk about compatibility? Just try to install MS Office 2003 and Photoshop 6 under Windows 11 - you’ll fine that both will work just fine without hacks.

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        4 months ago

        They have app specific “hacks” in place for old popular software. Like Winamp and the ones you mentioned.