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Old February 12th 19, 08:54 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge

On 2/11/19 7:30 PM, Paul wrote:
T wrote:
On 2/11/19 6:11 PM, pjp wrote:
In article , lid says...

On 2/11/19 5:15 PM, Mike wrote:
Linux has not offered a viable alternative for the desktop.

Actually Linux Desktop are a wonderful substitute from Windows.
I run my shop on Fedora Xfce and am tickled with it.

What keep folks away is that Linux does not have but about 5%
of the application base as Windows, if that.

I have always felt if Linux had games equal to Windows would do it.


There is always Wine, but it is not for the faint of heart.


So WINE ("Wine Is Not an Emulator") spits out a few warnings.

What's not to like ?

Since the executables don't have access to the
physical layer on disk drives, commercial software
attempting to write license patterns in places they
shouldn't, are blocked.

It's the same for Bash shell in Windows 10. It's
denied the usage of /dev, which limits things
you can do with it. That's the price you pay for
compatibility layers. They have to be made a tiny
bit hack-resistant.

WINE access ~/.wine/Drive_C/ or similar, and your
C drive is underneath that point. There is a mechanism
to fake a registry. There is a copy of Notepad and
possibly Regedit for your amusement.

Bash shell accesses your C drive as /mnt/c and
your Windows home would be /mnt/c/users/username.
Attempts from Win10 Bash shell, to access /dev/sda
will fail.

Â*Â* Paul



I use it on a daily basis. Only about 1/2 of the Windows programs
will run. And of those only about 1 in 5 run completely normally.

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