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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:30PM (#22596590)
> now that Wine exists

Wine is 26 years old.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by phoe-krk on Monday March 16, 2020 @04:23PM (#22597223)
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.
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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by ralphie02 on Monday March 16, 2020 @10:51PM (#22601115)
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).
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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:07AM (#22604497)
> 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.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by ralphie02 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:20PM (#22606507)
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

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