Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub
by adamc on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:00PM
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Very unlikely, as it would mess with backwards compatibility and cause unhappiness of users and IT departments. Microsoft still makes money selling Office and other products there.
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Microsoft doesn't need to care about backwards compatibility anymore, now that Wine exists precisely to have compatibility with Windows software (including software that even modern Windows itself no longer wants to run).
Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:30PM
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> now that Wine exists
Wine is 26 years old.
Agreed, could have worded it better. Now that Wine is good enough to run most of Windows software and backed by Valve via its Proton initiative.
Hasn't Wine been good enough for at least 10+ years? Furthermore, how does being backed by Valve actually be of any significant value? I've heard of this argument for a couple of years now and I'm still not convinced (not that I follow Wine development that closely).
Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:07AM
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> Hasn't Wine been good enough for at least 10+ years?
Depends on what you mean by "good enough". Wine is an incredible project that has achieved amazing successes, but it still falls short in a lot of ways.
This is exactly what I'm getting at.
I personally don't use Wine but I've encountered people online in the last 10+ years that use the argument that it's "good enough" for people to fully switch to Linux. Realistically, I don't think Wine actually convinced more than a handful of users to abandon Windows