Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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• magguzu@lemmy.pt ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  An EXE is a Windows app. This is like asking if you can run an iOS app on Android.

  That said yes with Wine but that’s a compatibility layer you should be avoiding as much as possible. Games are of course the big exception here, as Proton uses Wine.

  Most apps have an open source alternative on Linux. I haven’t even given it much thought in years. YMMV of course as people’s needs differ.

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• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If it’s a company computer, it is probably safest to let the company manage it. If it is your personal computer, your job shouldn’t be requiring you to install anything on it.

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• Pumasuedeblue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I hope that your daily driver is 100% paid for and supported by your work. There’s no way you should be expected to bring an unsecured advertising and user tracking device into your home, especially on your own hardware.

  There are very few reasons why anyone should be using Windows in a professional setting anymore. Any company that does so is taking a huge security risk with company data. I’m sure there are lots of places that do it, but this is due to typical corporate laziness and ignorance.

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• ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If your distrobution’s maintainers have your package in their repos it will generally only be 3-5 clicks in the GUI package manager or 1-2 lines at the terminal.

  Flatpak solved compatibility and library issues, becoming huge in the process. AppImage is basically like an Exe for windows.

  can I run exe’s yet This has been possible for over 20 years, but with the more recent changes to WINE most (MOST not ALL) windows apps will work fine but you really shouldn’t be trying to use the windows apps unless there’s no other option

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    AppImage isn’t like an exe in Windows. It’s much more like a App Bundle in MacOS. Way way better than just an .exe

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    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      AppImage is still kinda trash though.

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Only if done wrong. They are brilliant in general.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I begrudgingly prefer AppImage to being told to make make install, at this point. You know those little projects that will never go into a standard repo or flatpak. For example, some ham radios used a converter box that hooked up to a Windows 95 PC via serial so you could program its internal memory. Well, none of that shit exists anymore. so some guy somewhere has written a thing to do it with a Raspberry Pi’s GPIO. 444 people in the world will ever download and use this software. I’d rather you AppImage that than tell me to git clone make make install.

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not familiar with app bundles, and tbh my only experience with exe’s are the kind that are just zip files with a different extension. I’d assumed that under the hood they were similar, but I guess I never actually checked.

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There are virtually no .exes that are zip files with another extensionm. They are executable binary files and nearly always require a slew of support files (just like Linux binary executables)

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• staciagrey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Take a look at Winboat. It the uno reverse of WSL for Windows. They are working on You passthrough as well

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