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on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.
Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.
Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?
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(Score: 2) by Lunix Nutcase on Thursday October 22 2015, @01:32PM
If you don't restrict to the last few versions of Wine, then you get 4051 Platinum ratings.
Which isn't really meaningful. You're including versions of wine that haven't been actively maintained or in use for years and you're also including in development versions which major distros like Debian and Ubuntu are not shipping. On the other hand, Debian testing [debian.org] and Ubuntu 15.10 [ubuntu.com] use Wine 1.6.2 (latest stable) which has only 153 platinum apps or not even 2% of all applications in that DB.
(Score: 2) by Lunix Nutcase on Thursday October 22 2015, @01:37PM
And of those, 92 are games. So that leaves us only 61 non-games that have a platinum rating in the stable version of Wine. Of which only 11 are productivity apps, none of which are major applications like Microsoft Office or Photoshop.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Thursday October 22 2015, @04:08PM
While I agree that the recent versions of MS Office and Photoshop aren't at platinum level. Photoshop 7 and Microsoft Office 2002 (XP) do have Platinum ratings. Microsoft Office 2002 (XP) is noted as tested using the "most recent stable" version of Wine v1.6.1.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Lunix Nutcase on Thursday October 22 2015, @05:54PM
1.6.2 is the recent stable. That's why it's what is shipped in Debian and Ubuntu 15.10. And, neither of those are listed as platinum in 1.6.2.
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bIsQueue=false&bIsRejected=false&sClass=application&sTitle=Browse+Applications&iItemsPerPage=25&iPage=1&sOrderBy=appName&bAscending=true [winehq.org]