Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Support

Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by giancarlostoro on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:29PM (#20243984)

This will make me more likely to spin up a ReactOS VM if I really want to run any Windows only software, since running Windows in a VM is very resource consuming.

I was looking at computers at Walmart with only 4GB of RAM, the task manager said 3 GB out of 4 GB were being used, and it was just on standby. I don't know what happened around Windows 8 to 10 but having 8 GB of RAM is too little for Windows, the OS takes up half of it out of the box whilst idle.

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by FeatureIncomple on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:37PM (#20244077)

Yep

That, and it's also almost impossible to run Windows 8 or 10 with a HDD drive, even for basic stuff like internet browsing, etc.

SSD is basically required now.

Sad, because Linux is still pretty fast with HDD for basic usage.

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by asark on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:43PM (#20244136)

Can confirm, had a huge "WTF?" on installing Win8 on an HDD and seeing the friggin' OS UI pause constantly for no obvious reason. It was like running Win98 on a 75Mhz Pentium with 16MB of RAM. On my beefy quad-core Intel with 16GB of RAM. Added an SSD, problem went away. They're relying on the SSD to make up for some really lazy crap in their code.

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by boybd on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:48PM (#20244184)

If ReactOS ever reaches the point where it can be used instead of Wine, I might as well just boot ReactOS and drop Linux completely.

I like Windows but I don't like the way it's heading. A perpetual XP/7 would be great.

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