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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by bluGill on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:57AM (#20243033)
You keep changing the goalpost. Odds are if you were willing to live with the versions you were using 15 years ago you would find Wine works just fine. Probably even if you just stuck with the versions you were using 5 years ago.
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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by cwyers on Friday June 21, 2019 @11:46AM (#20243528)
If someone wants to use Windows applications to interact with other users, using a 15-year-old version is really not going to cut it. Office, Photoshop... all of those big ticket Windows apps have added a lot of things in 15 years. You could get that level of compatibility from Libre Office and GIMP.
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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by boybd on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:28PM (#20243972)
Actually no, I play DX9 games from 15 years ago and they are still, well, not there yet.
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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by asark on Friday June 21, 2019 @01:00PM (#20244294)
Some even earlier directx games are damn near unplayable anywhere but real hardware, last time I checked. Heavily tied to a handful of video cards from a span of just a few years. Looking at you, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. I don't think VirtualBox even works in those cases.
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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by Shorel on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:09PM (#20250899)
They don't even work well in Windows 7 or 10.

That's why I still have an XP partition

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