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Another German state plans switch back from Linux to Windows

vincent himpe

application compatibility

That is the key problem.

If all these linux developers would put their brains and might under developing an operating system that could run windows binaries we would have a winner.

Every time i looked at linux ( at least once every two to three months ) there is just too much stuff that has no equivalent. No matter what your opinion : there is just no substitute for certain software. Take something like Solidworks for example. Or Altium Designer. Or Adobe Premiere. Or microcontroller toolchains. There may be something in the linux world that comes close but it is not the same. And that's where the misery begins. Plug-ins and add-ons for those tools don't run in the 'equivalents' : they need the real tools.

That would be solved by making an open source 'windows' that implements the full windows API.

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