Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

On 2025-04-09 18:40:03 +0000, candycanearter07 said:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote at 03:16 this Tuesday (GMT):

On 2025-03-24 19:52, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

 I could use Agent simply for its archives of old messages, and use
another app for live Usenet functions, but I *like* using Agent, for
all its datedness, it still does what I like it to do.

 Right.
 Meaning that Linux cannot fulfill all of your needs.

 That's patently stupid.  I could use something other than Agent.  I am
using Agent under Linux.  Deal with that.

 No. You're using Agent in an emulator under Linux; costing you
performance, when you claim that your needs for performance are so high.

  Wine Is Not an Emulator

It depends what system you're running WINE on as to whether it performs as a quasi-emulator or a quasi-virtualiser, but either way it still is not running the app natively either, so there is still a performance penalty.
Then again, WINE and similar 'translation' apps are such utter crap that only work on specific hardware and OSes that nobody with a brain actually uses them. They screw up at the slightest update to either WINE or the OS meaning you have to rebuild the "bottled app" yet again ... and that's if you're lucky enough to get it working at all.
Trying to run Windows apps without actual Windows is always going to be a ridiculously silly idea that will never work properly.   :-\