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Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools (www.neowin.net)

submitted 7 months ago by quantumcog@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2.

One more reason to switch to Linux

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Basically, they like to drink wine.

No. I'm kidding. WINE stands for WINE Is Not an Emulator, and it allows you to run Windows applications on a Linux machine. It's far from perfect, but it can be a lifesaver when switching from Windows to Linux. What user melpomenesclevage is trying to say, is that you can use WINE to significantly blunt the blow / daily usability learning curve when switching, to keep some of your familiar applications as is.

Edit: here's their site https://www.winehq.org/ the also explain it much better than I.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How you explained it helped a lot. So it basically is a windows emulator but isn't for legal reasons? Lol

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Haha no, it's technically not an emulator. Emulation means having a whole fake CPU that runs your software. Wine doesn't do that, instead it makes the windows exe run in Linux and provides an API so the calls your windows program makes run natively.

Tldr emulation is slow, wine makes your programs run natively.

I switched to Linux for gaming a year ago and I have been blown away by how good it is.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not really an emulator, though the end result is similar. WINE translates the instructions sent between the OS and software to languages each other understands. It's like a Babel Fish for Windows programs and the Linux OS.