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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by NetOpWibby on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:13AM (#43856644)
+1 for Wine, I didn’t bother with Linux until Wine showed up.
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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by mananaysiempre on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:28AM (#43857391)
Uh, Wine showed up in June of 1993[1], a full month before the first official release of Windows NT. Not necessarily in a usable form, mind you, but even now the usability is heavily dependent on what specific software you are trying to emulate.

[1] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/commit/2c25c3e9442c69b...

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