Why is WINE so unstable? Is there any hope for efficient windows emulation in linux?
Why is WINE so unstable? Is there any hope for efficient windows emulation in linux?
Ethan Foster
Gabriel Collins
Wine is not an emulator
William Cooper
>Wine Is Not an Emulator
Kevin Butler
>en.wikipedia.org
>It emulates the Windows runtime environment...
>The name Wine initially was an abbreviation for Windows Emulator.
>Its meaning later shifted to the recursive acronym Wine Is Not an Emulator in order to differentiate the software from CPU emulators.
Wine is an emulator.
Lincoln Morgan
because the windows API is a massive mess
Dominic Robinson
>Incompetent loonix hacks can't mimic ancient structured windows code
>I-it's messy, it's n-n-not like I even wanted to copy you baka
Sebastian Sanders
POO
Bentley White
Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer
Hudson Ward
WINE wasn't even primarily made for Linux, retard. It's cross-platform.
Kevin Reed
BSDfags can cleanly implement Linux binary compatibility on BSD
Wine can't do Windows compatibility on anything
What's at fault here?
Gavin Taylor
>trying to argue with a street shitter.
Brody Sanchez
That's its whole problem today really.
Its primary target isn't GNU/Linux, its OS X and Apple has neglected their desktop OS so much now that's become a serious issue.
The D3D11 support they've been working on for instance only works on a single vendor's hardware in GNU/Linux because they can't use modern OpenGL 4.2+ or Vulkan and have to instead abuse undefined behavior in 'compatibility' mode to work around Apple's OpenGL 4.1 restriction.
Noah Lopez
>originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator"
faqs.org
The internet never forgets.
Robert Turner
the wine pre-2000 was but not the 2017 one as emulate makes no sense when you can just provide the dlls
Kayden Thomas
>What's at fault here?
Your parents, for not aborting you.
Cooper Sullivan
>as emulate makes no sense when you can just provide the dlls
I... what? Do you think that's all wine does?
Jace Morales
It truly never does.
shemesh.biz
Ethan Ortiz
>shemesh.biz
>Dated 2003, five years after my source
Nice.
Hudson Cox
Also source on name change.
groups.google.com
Jose Gutierrez
Who cares, what I'm asking is if there is any chance of escaping this vortexed spynet that looks into my computer while still using halfway decent software.
Daniel Collins
Why is WINE so unstable? How do we fix it?