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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by yyyk on Sunday September 29, 2019 @08:02AM (#21106552)
If I had a penny for every time a 'Gold level' supported program simply failed to work properly or required some nearly undocumented workaround* , I'd be rich.

* No, I don't consider having to search bugzilla 'documentation'.

Edit: Note that I'm talking about Wine here. When wine is wrapped by people who know what they're doing it works well - Crossweavers/Proton etc. - for the specific subset of programs they're tuned for. Otherwise you have all the wine-typical issues outside that subset.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sunday September 29, 2019 @10:15AM (#21107148)
Right? Don't get me wrong, that Wine works at all is pretty damned incredible, but anyone who thinks of it as a drop in Windows replacement is going to be severely disappointed.
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