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Microsoft Raises Prices for All Surface PCs, Making Them More Expensive Than Equivalent Macs (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

95b… A and C were pretty bad. Different dev team.

98 SE wasn’t bad either.

And XPSP2 Lite is still really nice; community project that stripped out all the stuff not explicitly “operating system” so you could choose on your own what software to run on top of it.

I still run Lite in a VM on my M-series Mac. It runs all Windows software that isn’t locked down to Win10+ DRM.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Doesn't MacOS have access to translation layers like Wine/Proton in combination with FEX? (I guess a VM would be nice for compartmentalizing things)

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That’s a bit tricky right now actually; Rosetta 2 is being removed from the next OS, which kills all WINE/Proton support.

    Things are still a bit up in the air about the future of Intel emulation on macOS.

    Meanwhile, QEMU/UTM will continue to work just fine, and you can spin up a different Lite instance for each software configuration you want to compartmentalize.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    This is incorrect. Apple have said Rosetta 2 support is staying around specifically for games. This has also been confirmed by Codeweavers.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    They’ve said that some sort of support is staying around for games, but at the same time that system-wide Rosetta 2 support is being removed. The details about what that means about Intel translation for games is being clarified at WWDC this year. And what that means for WINE still hasn’t been clearly explained one way or the other.

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