For all the oldies in the room, Lindows / Linspire (me included)
Trying to merge Wine with Linux into one ““convenient”” package was overselling it at best and worst a lie. Back in '08 / '09 I tried to run it, just to see how good (or bad) it was. It was basically Debian with KDE and their special sauce on top to ““easily”” run Windows binaries. Especially in those day, WINE wasn’t as good as it is today. I think you can fill in the rest ;-)
Lindows was my first Linux experience ever. I was in high school (so this was probably around 2002, as I graduated in 03). Being my first Linux experience I remember the KDE DE and thinking how cool it was the I could customize the clock in various ways (digital, analog, etc).
That started the journey. Dabbled and distro hopped for a few years, and went full linux in probably 07. I’ve never looked back.
I wonder how well a modern day implementation of this would work considering all the new tools and enhancements to the older tools. I would ditch windows fast if i could just run a Windows binary “native” if a Linux version wasn’t available.
I haven’t looked closely at all the bells and whistles of SteamOS. I know it has proton for running games, but how well does it run random software executables i know there’s still a lot of barriers for cross platform interoperability, but I’m not sure how thin those barriers are.
For all the oldies in the room, Lindows / Linspire (me included)
Trying to merge Wine with Linux into one ““convenient”” package was overselling it at best and worst a lie. Back in '08 / '09 I tried to run it, just to see how good (or bad) it was. It was basically Debian with KDE and their special sauce on top to ““easily”” run Windows binaries. Especially in those day, WINE wasn’t as good as it is today. I think you can fill in the rest ;-)
Lindows was my first Linux experience ever. I was in high school (so this was probably around 2002, as I graduated in 03). Being my first Linux experience I remember the KDE DE and thinking how cool it was the I could customize the clock in various ways (digital, analog, etc).
That started the journey. Dabbled and distro hopped for a few years, and went full linux in probably 07. I’ve never looked back.
I wonder how well a modern day implementation of this would work considering all the new tools and enhancements to the older tools. I would ditch windows fast if i could just run a Windows binary “native” if a Linux version wasn’t available.
You mean Steam OS?
I haven’t looked closely at all the bells and whistles of SteamOS. I know it has proton for running games, but how well does it run random software executables i know there’s still a lot of barriers for cross platform interoperability, but I’m not sure how thin those barriers are.