• Yes, you can run Windows apps on Linux - here are my top 5 ways

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Tue Sep 9 06:32:30 2025
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    The first 3 ways listed in <https://www.zdnet.com/article/yes-you-can-run-windows-apps-on-linux-here-are-my-top-5-ways/>
    of running Windows apps on Linux are basically different ways of
    repackaging the Wine API emulator. And VirtualBox is just Windows in a
    VM.

    The last way, WinBoat (still in prerelease), sounded a bit mysterious
    in how it worked: looks like it runs a Windows VM within a container.
    Not sure why it’s done this way -- maybe to allow spinning up multiple
    VMs within the container, without cluttering your Linux host userland
    with extra cruft.
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Tue Sep 9 13:35:26 2025
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    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    The first 3 ways listed in <https://www.zdnet.com/article/yes-you-can-run-windows-apps-on-linux-here-are-my-top-5-ways/>
    of running Windows apps on Linux are basically different ways of
    repackaging the Wine API emulator. [...]

    Nitpick: WINE's proud boast is "Wine Is Not an Emulator".
    The clue is in its name.
    --
    ^Ï^. Sn!pe, PTB, FIBS My pet rock Gordon just is.
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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+MiPCfkpDwn4y78J+MuvCfjLnwn4y78J+SkPCfjLfwn4y68J+MiA==?=Jen=?UTF-8?B?8J+MiPCfkpDwn4y78J+MuvCfjLnwn4y78J+SkPCfjLfwn4y68J+MiA==?= D=?UTF-8?B?ZXJzaG1lbmRlcmRl?=nden...den-den *jazz hands*=?UTF-8?B?8J+SkPCfjLvwn4y68J+MufCfjLvwn5KQ8J+Mt/CfjLo=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Qtuesmw==?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+MiPCfkpDwn4y78J+MuvCfjLnwn4y78J+SkPCfjLfwn4y68J+MiA==?=@root@127.0.0.1 to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Tue Sep 9 15:17:40 2025
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    On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 13:35:26 +0100, LO AND BEHOLD; WARNING:
    "Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org" detected, therefore some
    british guy who was apprehended by bobbies in Lancashire having been
    accused of molesting several stones and pebbles in the area is on the
    loose once again. He may possibly be spotted in his natural
    environment of usenet ko0k froups demonstrating his UPA where he
    pretends that he's a bird that somehow is also a telepathic/spiritual
    conduit for a pet rock named Gordon that he purchased from a Roma
    fortune teller while completely fscked on lsd in 1971. He presently
    poasts his fascist and white supremacist-leaning sentiments using
    upwards of 3 ridiculous nyms including: "snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)"
    DO NOT APPROACH HIM, as he has a pointy beak and is very very angry at
    the way that the tide is turning for white privilege and he determined
    that the following was of great importance to snipeco.2@gmail.com
    (Sn!pe) and subsequently decided to freely share it with us in <1rieahi.1cnpit61dogg27N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>:

    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡Lawrence✡D'Oliveiro✡<ldo@nz.invalid>✡wrote:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡ =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡The✡first✡3✡ways✡listed✡in
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    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡re-are-my-top-5-ways/>✡of✡running✡Windows✡apps✡on✡Linux✡are✡basically
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡different✡ways✡of✡repackaging✡the✡Wine✡API✡emulator.✡✡✡[...]
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡ =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡Nitpick:✡✡WINE's✡proud✡boast✡is✡"Wine✡Is✡Not✡an✡Emulator".✡The✡clue✡is
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡in✡its✡name.✡ =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=✡

    ALSO:

    PINE (Pine is not Email).

    Was an email program.

    The joke is in the name.

    HTH
    --

    Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 13:04:54 +0100
    From: onion@anon.invalid (Mr ?n!on)
    Message-ID: <1rgqzzk.2zxwu61j7n037N%onion@anon.invalid>
    I rebut his unsupported allegation that I "have made multiple
    intimidating threats in January to "post my pics". "
    A proper citation is required. I won't be holding my breath.

    Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 15:28:30 +0000
    From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
    Message-ID: <1r5hmpt.7k31k41v4jkebN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>
    Maybe Usenet -is- ready to see those selfies again after all. [fu set]

    Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 00:28:07 +0000
    From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
    Message-ID: <1r5k6g1.1oxpq95ksjpy2N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>
    If you keep on jumping on my poasts I'll put those selfies up.
    Fair warning, your choice.

    Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:27:15 +0000
    From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
    Message-ID: <1r67y1d.1xu2dkypsqalhN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>
    I also have those selfies. Your choice, be warned.

    "Whereas I CAN post non-sequiturs, as I prove with my reply" - Kent Bradley Wills in Message-ID: <acpb6khjfsur6le8u914f7a37asce7hjcu@4ax.com>

    Kent/Kenito Wills is a lying fraud and a world-class K0ok:

    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php? fbid=10226575407554944&set=pb.1339154565.-2207520000&type=3>

    "A very special Happy Son's Day to my most beloved son, Kent. This
    picture was taken before you lost over 100 lbs."

    "Keníto Wills (https://www.facebook.com/kwills3)
    It’s not my birthday. That’s in January."

    Kent celebrating his 49th birthday after losing 100 lbs https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10226575407554944&set=pb.1339154565.-2207520000&type=3
    Fred A Wills
    A very special Happy Son's Day to my most beloved son, Kent. This picture was taken before you lost over 100 lbs.

    Vangie Hansen
    Happy Birthday Kent!!!??

    Dottie Wilkinson Dunlap
    Happy birthday!

    Keníto Wills
    It’s not my birthday. That’s in January.

    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.autos.misc/c/Ou60H28ExUw
    Kent Bradley Wills DOB Jan 8, 1969 Felony Garage Burglar used teen as accomplice

    AI guy in suit that Kent/Kenito identifies as: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10231572239674019&set=a.1603583254411

    https://www.facebook.com/kwills3
    Keníto Wills (Кеніто)
    1.4K followers • 0 following

    "I am not a "hetero cismale"." - Steve K. Hall in <1r5hu1f.z02fkr1t8gjr5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>

    "Claiming that I "refuse to respect pronouns" is dead wrong. I respect them with everyone but "Jen" and "their" ilk, because "they" are a phony." - Scott Doty AKA Creon AKA Vallor AKA Doc Hammerhead declares why he ironically reserves the "right" to misgender others just like his MAGA bigot cohorts are wont to in Message-ID: <l54g7pF27huU2@mid.individual.net>

    "You're stupid if you run "make" as root, numbnuts." - Scott Doty in <qgmhQ.8004$v9ff.889@fx42.iad>

    Additionally, one will be disappointed if one doesn't "sudo make install"
    after "sudo make modules_install". - Scott Doty running make as root in <nX7hQ.78395$i168.5679@fx13.iad>

    Message-ID: <nistjjhili8963p9l65oi962r3p4mktej5@4ax.com>
    " And yet, one can still see the headers.
    If you weren't so stupid, you would know how. I will try, and
    likely fail, to dumb it down to your intellectual level.
    To the right of the post there are three dots. Click on them. A
    few options will appear. Click on "Show original message" and follow
    the instructions as best your learning disability will permit.
    If you still can't see the headers, there is nothing more I can
    do. I cannot dumb this down any more than I have." - Kenito Wills, stupider than shit-stupid. (See: https://ibb.co/MVsRGqN)

    "It's just like you to read all that, and come up a sick and clueless response like that one, totally unrelated to the point. It must get confusing to be intelligent enough to "sit at the best reading table in school," and fail to cobble together a basic understanding of what you've just read. The nasty side of you always manages to take control to guard your fragile ego, which explains why you never get along with people, and get visitors like Red Elephant who take the time and trouble to come by and embarrass you..." - <MPG.41696ec8ecc18ea4989796@usnews.blocknews.net> Jimbo responds to a yes/no question exactly as one might expect him to.

    "Bullshit! You salivate over every word I write, then beg for more. Then when you realize that I've put you in another hole you can't worm your way out of... even if you did "sit at the best reading table in elementary school," YOU revert to pedo lames, because that's the best you can do. In fact, no one here has any interest in your obsession with pedo lames but you, because you're intellectually weak. In fact, you seem suspiciously obsessed with that topic. Maybe some day we'll find out why." - <MPG.4169de194a070345989798@usnews.blocknews.net> No Jim, I am not "obsessed" with what you did and concealed and continue to backpedal from.

    https://groups.google.com/g/misc.legal/c/6FaoS9bawDI/m/Wdupq7BHaSkJ
    "I've spoken against CPS many times. That I realize that they were 100% correct in regards to you doesn't mean I'm pro-CPS." - Kent Wills doesn't like Child Protection Services getting in his way of abusing children.

    https://groups.google.com/g/misc.legal/c/AmluvRraNjg/m/gufYNdgK3E8J
    "Greg has made it very clear he likes little girls. And not in a sexually healthy way." - Kent Wills believes that there's a "sexually healthy" way to be a pedophile.

    "I'm actually glad it's out in the open now, it's a lot of weight to bear. Some will graciously accept that, and some probably won't. It makes it real easy to know who's worth regarding as a friend. Those few remaining haters hide behind socks... I wonder why?" - Checkmate AKA Auntie Tranny <youdaman@betamail.corn> AKA "Rick Sabian" AKA "Morphing Fuckwit" AKA "automatic tranny" AKA "jen der queer" AKA "livelong@and.prosper" AKA "FOAD <foad@grnail.corn>" AKA "Destiny <faghaitur@bucket.list>" AKA "DAVID KEETING <Squiggles@ass.worm>" AKA "f4c3411 <f3c4L@f37l5h.corn>" AKA "<"Hunter's Dildo <RumPPumPPa@uPPa.yOOaSS>" >" AKA "Mustafa Sheboygan" AKA "Peter, the Booty Judge" <root@127.0.0.1> AKA "Mund Harmonika <root@127.0.0.1>" AKA "Mundharmonika <root@127.0.0.1>" AKA "% <%@hotmale.com>" AKA "Checkmate <trouble@soon.corn>" AKA "Mundharmonika <R00T@MOUTH.ORGAN>" AKA "Mundharmonika <R00T@127.O.O.1>" AKA "Tard Wrangler <youknowit@alphamale.corn>" hates when people hate pedo rapists. He wants friends who like pedo rapists. Write that down and don't forget it! <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.checkmate/c/2VcCBNwMdeo/m/A0wpvxZRAAAJ>

    "I think we should destroy every last fucking mosque in America." - "Checkmate, DoW #1" <Lunatic.Fringe@The.Edge> proves for us that white males are violent in Message-ID: <MPG.32c5bfefd18c9a698f0a8@news.altopia.com>

    "Yeah, but you think everybody's Greg. There are a couple people here who can't resist responding to everything the aSSwurm or the Pussy Willow says. It does me no good to plonk aSSwurm and Pussy Willow if I still have to wade through a hundred inane posts a day involving those two assholes, so now I've plonked the chronic responders as well. They'll figure it out, and then they can make a choice... exchange stupid drivel with those two, or have more intelligent and interesting conversations with me. I know damned well Greg got sick of all that shit, and now I'm sick of it too. Those who choose to get led around by the lowest common denominator are fucking up AC and every other group they play that game in. If that's the kind of Usenet they want, they can wallow in the same slop as the two retards elsewhere, because they're only contributing to fucking this group up too. I can take or leave this shit, because I have plenty to keep me occupied with my room addition project, and it's a hell of a lot more rewarding than exchanging baby talk with the likes of the aSSwurm. May his fucking worthless AIDS-infested carcass drop fucking dead ASAP and quit wasting oxygen. To sum it up, talk to those two idiots elsewhere, or they'll probably be the only people left to talk to here." One can only presume that Jim and Creon/Vallor have solved this problem and are together in a private chat "having more intelligent and interesting conversations" instead of these "Civil" calls for shunning and authoritative control of discussion. As Seen on TV : <MPG.35cd7d50e1b224b1994604@news.altopia.com>

    "I'm pretty sure all gods are fictional, I'm smart enough to not proclaim I know this." - Kwills is only smart enough to doubt himself while arguing that a belief in imaginary made-up gods can't just be ignored as "mental illness" in <mo4q0j9tcqjt68s039loiacrbarihsh9i5@4ax.com>

    "If you worried half as much about your own personal life as you do everyone else's, you might almost be tolerable, obsessed stalker." -James "Checkmate" Gorman, in perhaps the most ironic and mentally-challenged statement ever made on Usenet. <MPG.4001ba2c14cace6c98cb6f@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Trying to diminish others doesn't make you look any better. In fact, it does quite the opposite. Why are you always so bitter and angry? Do you have AIDS or something like so many other tranny girls do?" -James "Checkmate" Gorman in <MPG.405409befd41f28898969d@test.blocknews.net>

    "You should see my archive on you" -James "Checkmate" Gorman teases us with his "dosser" in <MPG.3eea81b23145043b98c338@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Sorry, nothing to see here. The joint wasn't as bad as they say, but I'm not looking to go back. I'm a model citizen, clean as a whistle. I've owned my own home for 12 years, owned my own business almost as long, don't bother anyone and they don't bother me. You have nothing in any "police report" pertaining to me. Don't you think they would have "come a-knockin" a long time ago if they had any reason to? You're delusional and paranoid, and I have to wonder why.

    Oh... I should mention that there are a LOT of trannies in prison. I don't know why, but there are. The State even has to give them hormone shots for their tiddies at taxpayer's expense, and they wear bras and panties. I found everything about them revolting. That's why the whole "Bubba" thing is almost completely a myth, except in cell living. That shit wouldn't fly in a 100-man dorm, but trust me, those little trollops find ways to serve the willing when the lights go out. You see something, you keep your mouth shut about it because that way you don't get in a wreck. I never partook in such activities because the whole idea is just repulsive. I think that's a big part of what I don't like about you. I've seen how they act and I've talked to a few... total drama queens in every sense." -James "Checkmate" Gorman reminisces about prison in <MPG.3ceb37c2eddbaff98b07a@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Not true. I've seen square waves on the oscilloscope from some certain generator. Square waves can be created from other than sine waves. Sine waves aren't everything (or anything you sick pervert %), I think that's the point you are missing. - Mathemagician "Lane Larson" in <939d6741-df96-5f2e-a444-b6dfd77de09e@stoat.inhoin.edu> seems to argue that square wave generators must use Fourier transforms "of course" to generate "almost" square waves... in his feeble attempt to quash my assertion that "square waves do not exist in reality" in post <=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3DKWuXdYTXCQ5ApC$@88.203.236.221=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3D>.

    "Colour me fanboi, oh yes indeed. I'm a fanboi who is proudly content to be just that." - snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) in <1qx4ikk.c8jzw919si6cmN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>

    Golden Killfile, June 2005
    KOTM, November 2006
    Bob Allisat Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, November 2006
    Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, November 2006
    Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, September 2007
    Tony Sidaway Memorial "Drama Queen" Award, November 2006
    Busted Urinal Award, April 2007
    Order of the Holey Sockpuppet, September 2007
    Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, September 2006
    Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, April 2008
    Tinfoil Sombrero, February 2007
    AUK Mascot, September 2007
    Putting the Awards Out of Order to Screw With the OCD Fuckheads, March 2016

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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Tue Sep 9 16:40:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 9/9/2025 8:35 AM, Sn!pe wrote:
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    The first 3 ways listed in
    <https://www.zdnet.com/article/yes-you-can-run-windows-apps-on-linux-here-are-my-top-5-ways/>
    of running Windows apps on Linux are basically different ways of
    repackaging the Wine API emulator. [...]

    Nitpick: WINE's proud boast is "Wine Is Not an Emulator".
    The clue is in its name.


    Technically, yes, it doesn't emulate executable code, but it does
    emulate the Windows API, Lawrence is correct in what he said.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Tue Sep 9 22:49:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Joel W. Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 9/9/2025 8:35 AM, Sn!pe wrote:
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    The first 3 ways listed in
    <https://www.zdnet.com/article/yes-you-can-run-windows-apps-on-linux-here-are-my-top-5-ways/>
    of running Windows apps on Linux are basically different ways of
    repackaging the Wine API emulator. [...]

    Nitpick: WINE's proud boast is "Wine Is Not an Emulator".
    The clue is in its name.

    Technically, yes, it doesn't emulate executable code, but it does
    emulate the Windows API, Lawrence is correct in what he said.

    Tell it to the Marines; the *Horse* Marines.
    --
    ^Ï^. Sn!pe, PTB, FIBS My pet rock Gordon just is.
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Thu Sep 11 16:29:52 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2025-09-09 2:32 a.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    The first 3 ways listed in <https://www.zdnet.com/article/yes-you-can-run-windows-apps-on-linux-here-are-my-top-5-ways/>
    of running Windows apps on Linux are basically different ways of
    repackaging the Wine API emulator. And VirtualBox is just Windows in a
    VM.

    The last way, WinBoat (still in prerelease), sounded a bit mysterious
    in how it worked: looks like it runs a Windows VM within a container.
    Not sure why it’s done this way -- maybe to allow spinning up multiple
    VMs within the container, without cluttering your Linux host userland
    with extra cruft.

    Here's something easier: stop making your life miserable running
    second-rate software developed by monsters who would cheer the death of someone with traditional values, and install Windows.
    --
    God be with you,

    CrudeSausage
    Islam is the enemy
    John 14:6
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