Still one of my favourite WTF moments for Windows.
Whats in the System32 folder? 64 bit dlls. Whats in SysWOW64? 32 bit dlls.
Yes I know that WOW64 stands for WindowsOnWindows64 but its still hilariously misleading.
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Everything about windows is misleading. There are windows settings that require doing some sort of an windows inception where you open one settings to go deeper into an older version of the same settings to go deeper into an even older version of the same settings until you reach something that was designed for Windows 98 and actually works. With every newer windows version the settings become only more and more convoluted. Thank god I've switched to Linux as my daily driver.
The problem of graphical settings. Needs more work, quickly gets confusing, ages badly. A fine .cfg from 1980 is still a fine .cfg now. It's place in the FS hierarchy might have changed but that's not a concern of the .cfg.
Why not both? A frontend for a cfg file for convenience and flexibility
Sure, yes. Even in games, it's a nice thing if you can set some engine options or custom resolutions not represented in the GUI.
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This is what brought me over the edge to switch to Linux. Been over 8 months now. Can dual boot but only booted windows once since.
ah yes. going through windows white papers and one says something is impossible but you find the other that says how to do it. fun times.
I mean, could you trust a company that created a Linux container subsystem for Windows and named it Windows Subsystem for Linux to name things correctly?
Windows has subsystems. They're called Windows Subsystems. This one's for Linux. However you slice it, the initialism has to have WS in it.
People do not realize that Windows has, and has had, other subsystems. So the name seems dumb.
When you realize that as far back as 1993 there was:
- subsystem for Win32
- subsystem for POSIX
- subsystem for OS/2
then Subsystem for Linux does not seems as crazy.
Having “for Windows” at the end sounds natural if you only have one but putting saying “Windows subsystem for” makes more sense when you realize there are a bunch of them.
Regardless, the decision was made 30 years ago and not recently as people assume.
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Stahp, my games already perform better on linux with wine then they did on windows at this rate…
Actually please keep going !!!
Are you tired of winning yet
Are you tired of ~~winning~~ wineing yet
Sigh, you missed the obvious pun: would you like some cheese with your wine?
My steak is too juicy and my lobster too buttery 😭
Win11
BOOOO
Wine11
:D
Sir, they hit the second penguin!
Does wine 11 support copilot?
You’ll need to wait for Wine 12 Copilot Plus edition featuring Clippy.
featuring Clippy
Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series
& Knuckles
Sorry, haven't you heard the news?
It's Copointe from the Copilot May Cry+ franchise now. Microsoft rebranded it.
Sega will be renamed to Zune.
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There is currently no way to remove copilot in Wine 11
Luckily there is no way to install it either.
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Still waiting on the improvements to BACKSTREET_BOYS to get merged.
So the * in N*SYNC stood for a T all this time?
Why do you think people got so into T posing?
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Already downloaded and built it on Slackware.
Was able to get Fallout 3 running on it without mods or community patches. Working fairly well, as long as its run windowed fullscreen I can tab out and back without it crashing.
Fallout 3
I remember playing Fallout 3 through wine on my Macbook Pro ages ago, it worked ok but crashed often. Well, given the circumstances it was more than good enough.
It crashed a lot when I played it on windows too. I tried playing it a couple of times, but always gave up partway through because it kept crashing. There are some mods that are supposed to help with stability, I should try it again and see if they fix it.
I remember on launch it was a fucking miracle if the PC version could get past the intro screen. The fact that it’s remotely stable now is a bloody miracle.
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Broke (cause you have to pay): Win11
Woke: Wine11
I read that as Windows 11 at first and I was confused to see that Microsoft actually updated the kernel code.
Wine has saved my classic gaming expeirience. I was about to spend hundreds to get my old windows xp computer new hard drives and adapters for the IDE, etc.
Then i screwed around with wine and installed my first game and it plays better than windows. Linux for life!
Would love to see work on getting broader application support like for microsoft office.
this is always going to be the toughest as the developer is known for not wanting their things to work or be compatible even with standards they publish.
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Anyone knows if vsts work in this version?
My wine is currently being helt at version 9.21 due to some bugs in newer versions.
~~While I don't specifically know about version 11~~ (EDIT: now I do!), but I've been running windows daw + vst's on wine 9-10.?? for ages. Using Renoise + bunch of different vst's (mix of vst2 and vst3), all of them seem to work just fine. I did have to install dxvk to the wineprefix to get the ui of some plugins to work, but they do work fine(ish) with it.
Now, the thing I have NOT tested is ilok drm. So far I've managed to do with plugins which don't use it.
I see wine 11 is already in my distro's testing repos. Aggressive waiting starts.
edit: for clarification, preset dropdown menu's from one specific plugin vendor (solemntones) vst's needs to be click/dragged the right way, otherwise they seem to not work. Bit annoying, but otherwise my plugins work.
edit: seems to work just as well on wine 11. But sample size = me & my vst/vsti's.
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Can’t wait to try steam and see what games can play. Been having a hard time trying to get anything to work.
really? my games just work. 3 years ago i still had to invest time into debugging/tweaking, just last month i installed 3 random games from my steam library and they all just worked out of the box.
My setup is a Mac M4 Max with wine and or crossover out of the box. Maybe I didn’t config it before using?
I thought at first you were a time traveller from 2009 or something but I totally forgot wine runs on mac
I know macs are a little more different than normal arm CPUs with page size etc. Don't you need fex or box64?
The Mac ecosystem has its own set of tooling for this. It uses Apple’s Rosetta 2 for x86 to ARM translation, and their Game Porting Toolkit (GPTK) for DX12 to Metal (Apple’s proprietary graphics API) translation.
(Should note that Asahi doesn’t have full support for M4 Macs yet so I’m assuming they’re on MacOS)
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Linux gaming? I just play HKIA on my macbook
Anyone know if this can already be updated to with home brew on Mac,
I use wine for Sumatrapdf
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