• Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    The key word being so far. A company like Microsoft would be able to ramp up wine development substantially, if they decided to. If I’m not mistaken, these very old legacy 16 and 32 bit apps have to be run on emulators running old versions of windows anyways - in these cases the OS running the emulator doesn’t matter anyways.

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      20 hours ago

      True! If they committed back to the Linux kernel and the Wine project, this would be a huge boon. And it might happen someday, I guess; they’ve contributed to other FOSS projects. They’ve also built the WSL which is just one transposition away from a LSW, so who knows.

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        13 hours ago

        LSW?

        LSW Laboratory Safety Workshop
        LSW Lamberg Sleep Well
        LSW Land and Sea Warfare
        LSW Lasik Surgery Watch
        LSW Last Seen Wearing
        LSW Least Significant Word
        LSW Leeds Sculpture Workshop
        LSW Left-Sided Weakness LSW Legendary Super Warriors
        LSW Lego Star Wars
        LSW Licensed Social Worker
        LSW Light Ship Weight
        LSW Light Support Weapon
        LSW Lincoln Southwest
        LSW London Standard Wording
        LSW Long Suffering Wife
        LSW Loudoun Symphonic Winds
        LSW Lucas-Sargent-Wallace proposition

        https://www.abbreviationfinder.org/acronyms/lsw.html

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          Heh, sorry. “WSL” is the “Windows Subsystem for Linux,” which (in the opposite of the way it sounds like it should work) runs Linux on Windows, pretty close to baremetal. So the “LSW” would be the “Linux Subsystem for Windows,” so to speak; a hypothetical way to run Windows on a Linux machine.