Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

  • Hucklebee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I would say: don’t rely on Wine if you’re dependent on the programs it runs somehow. If you don’t want to spend hours troubleshooting programs, then accept your losses.

    After days of messing about getting music VSTs to work, I decided to stop troubleshooting any error I have within Wine. If a program works with Wine straight away: lucky me! If something doesn’t work: I count my loss and accept I won’t be able to use that program on Linux for now.

    And obviously, don’t install and run andom programs that you wouldn’t install on Windows either. But that’s just common sense.

    • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Well, Windows has windows defender, one of the best defences out there. Wine does not AFAIK. But it does have continuous root access. I didn’t pay for photoshop or ableton as those applications are not within my budget (or anywhere close, I’d rather buy another synth). I do have to take a minimal (trusted sources) amount of risk by using cracks and keygens, something which would be stopped if it would be malicious by windows defender, but which gains full root access through wine without a prompt. That’s the reason why wine is such a vulnerability. Same as virus scanners on Linux. The best defense is root access protection. No virus scanners needed.

      Another reason why a switch to Linux would be hard for me is directory opus. Can’t work with regular file browsers, they are cringe AF. Dopus is amazing, it’s the best of windows browser, Linux browser and total commander combined, with everything tweakable to a perfect personalized experience. With a NAS with 29/32TB full, a proper file manager is mandatory. I haven’t found a proper substitute for Linux yet, and the devs haven’t announced a Linux version so far.