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agglingon Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

5341 of the 16491 applications listed in the Wine AppDB have a compatibility rating of "garbage". This is not excellent compatibility.

agglingon Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

There are many programs that still do not work properly in WINE, even though it has been developed for decades. This in itself demonstrates the infeasibility of reimplementing Win32 as a stable interface on par with Windows. The result after all this effort is still patchy and incomplete.

agglingon Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

That is irrelevant to the feasibility of reimplementing the Win32 API on Linux.

agglingon Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

This is amusing but infeasible in practice because it would need to be behaviorally compatible with Windows, including all bugs along with app compatibility mitigations. Might as well just use Windows at that point.