Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

On 2025-03-24 21:02, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

No. You're using Agent in an emulator under Linux;

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Not exactly, no, it's not emulating anything, it's literally providing
the answers to API calls as if it were really Winblows.

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Which is precisely what "emulation" means.
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A process makes an API call that would normally be made to the Windows OS...
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...and WiNE emulates the response.

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Nope.  It translates it into something Linux or macOS understands.

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That is what "emulation" means.

  Hint:  Wine is "Wine Is Not an Emulator", in name.  Because it really
isn't one - it's a compatibility layer, as it calls itself, making
real Linux or macOS calls to provide the services of the Microsoft
APIs.

Regardless of the name, it's a layer between the Windows application and the underlying OS.
That cannot exist without processing cost.

 

costing you
performance, when you claim that your needs for performance are so high.

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Not really, I have a great system.

So you say...
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...but you need to use Windows applications to fulfill all your needs.

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I could run Windows 11, on this machine.  It would simply be inferior
to running Linux, and using Wine sparingly.

And yet you need Windows applications to make your computing experience
whole...

  The few Windows apps I have under Wine are small, serving specific
purposes the way *I* happen to be used to, being a former Winblows
user.

You think that disproves my point?