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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by snarfy on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:11AM (#20242641)
I still run LTSpice on Linux using Wine. That's about it though.

With the advent of WSL on Windows and my professional need to use both Linux and Windows, I don't have a lot of reasons to use Wine anymore, or desktop Linux for that matter. Windows + WSL is good enough, and better than the other way around of Linux + Wine or a VM. I fear Wine will become more and more irrelevant as time passes. Killing 32bit support doesn't help them any.

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by dorfsmay on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:22AM (#20242718)
For work in Windows shop,sure, until I need Docker, although I could with faster I/O!

For home and companies that don't architect themselves around specific workstation OS, Linux all the way. I personally rarely use Wine, if ever, but had to use it for my kids requiring software that was available on Windows only.

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by snarfy on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:31AM (#20242792)
I do a lot of varied development, some of it requiring visual studio.
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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by cwyers on Friday June 21, 2019 @11:48AM (#20243550)
WSL 2 supports Docker now.
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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by AlexeyBrin on Friday June 21, 2019 @01:33PM (#20244644)
Yes, and you need to run the Insiders edition of Windows, which is not a good idea to do on your main computer. Most people will expect until WSL2 is available in the standard Windows version.
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