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Why Linux is Best for Most People(medium.com)

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TechCodex@programming.devOP
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Zorin OS has Windows App Support… You can run .exe and .msi on it…

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L_Acacia@lemmy.one
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I put zorin on my parent’s computer 2 years ago, while its a great distro, their windows app support is just marketing, its an out of date wine version with an unmaintained launcher. Worse than tinkering with wine yourself.

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smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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Yep, don’t even dare to advertise it to a midtier person. There are just going to download random .exe and find out how broken it is and have no idea how to get back and uninstall the software.

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𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I really want to love WINE, but it’s so difficult to find .net framework installers that actually work on it. Luckily the few Windows apps I use under Linux work with Wine (using Mono as an alternative to .net), or were compiled for XP so run OOTB without any framework install necessary

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