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Can't add update to an old SN article

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In this old article I posted years ago: Great News: Wine Runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux

I notice that the original article is no longer on the intarweb tubes. Maybe in the internet archive, but that might not be long for the world.

I had found this article instead:

Wine on Windows lets you run Windows apps… on Windows (through Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Wine is a compatibility layer that makes it possible to run some Windows applications on non-Windows operating systems including Linux and macOS.

So naturally some folks have been trying for years to see if they could run Wine on Windows for no particularly good reason.

Up until recently it hasn’t really been possible. Now it is.

So I was going to add a reply to my original ancient SN article, but it appears it is no longer possible to reply to either the article or any of its comments.

How would the vast hoardes and masses of people who use WINE on WSL on Windows be informed of updates? Horrors!

 

Reply to: It's designed to do just that.....

    (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Thursday May 18, @03:05PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 18, @03:05PM (#1306852)

    So I was going to add a reply to my original ancient SN article, but it appears it is no longer possible to reply to either the article or any of its comments.

    All discussions - front page, journals, polls - have a set lifetime. This is intentional. It prevents people from going back to old stories and rewriting them in order to correct (useful) or distort (abuse) what was actually said in the discussion. If the topic is rewritten then many of the comments become meaningless and refer to things said in a version that is no longer viewable.

    The best option (IMHO) is simply to write a new journal and like to the old one.

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