Re: “KDE For Windows 10 Exiles” Campaign

On 6/5/25 6:50 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 17:36:42 -0700, T wrote:
 

A prime example of this is LibreOffice, which I do use myself. LO has to
be, not similar, but "EXACTLY" the same as M$ Office or they blow a
cork.

 Interesting, because Microsoft Office is notorious for formatting
inconsistencies just from moving documents between different machines. If
they will put up with that, why should they complain about LibreOffice,
which does a better job anyway?
 

Oh and they wont pay for the upgrade to the new version of M$ Office.

 But they will pay for Adobe’s products??

Once and nothing after that

 

Wine is actually an application layer.  They get their nickers in a
twist if you call it an emulator.

 Try looking up “emulator” in the dictionary?
 Wine is no more “not an emulator” than GNU is “not Unix”.

Excellent point.
Here is what the grouches at Wine say about it:
https://www.winehq.org/about
     Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator")
     is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications
     on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux,
     macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic
     like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows
     API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the
     performance and memory penalties of other methods and
     allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications
     into your desktop.
It is still an emulator though.