When I switched off MSWindows, what I wanted was Windows 95b compatibility. It never showed up. It still hasn't. I've intentionally avoided later versions because of terms in the licensing.
These days the only things that haven't showed up on Linux, or had better replacements are a few music programs (more my wife's field than mine) and a few games...that I may have lost the CDs for.
I find dotNet based programs tends to end in tears on Wine. They either crash easy or never run at all. I use a number of industrial controller programming tools and none work because of dotNet shenanigans.
Much of the Win95 compatibility depends on 16bit code, which is not available on the 64bit mode regardless of windows or linux.At this point, your best bet is using 86box
I just wish a team would come together, fork ReactOS and work on a fixed target of creating an FOSS version of Windows 7! Not XP, not 8, not 2000.... In fact, make it two projects:
1. A 32-bit version of NT, which seeks to support the entire win32 API, and maintain compatibility w/ everything from Windows 95 to 10. That one can be x86-only, and would top off its RAM support at 4GB
2. A 64-bit version of NT, which would support the win64API, but do nothing in terms of backwards 32-bit support. For this
When I switched off MSWindows, what I wanted was Windows 95b compatibility. It never showed up. It still hasn't. I've intentionally avoided later versions because of terms in the licensing.
These days the only things that haven't showed up on Linux, or had better replacements are a few music programs (more my wife's field than mine) and a few games...that I may have lost the CDs for.
I find dotNet based programs tends to end in tears on Wine. They either crash easy or never run at all. I use a number of industrial controller programming tools and none work because of dotNet shenanigans.
Much of the Win95 compatibility depends on 16bit code, which is not available on the 64bit mode regardless of windows or linux.At this point, your best bet is using 86box
Good news! Someone hacked it into existence [github.com].
It's done wonders for my addiction to Win 3.x games.
I just wish a team would come together, fork ReactOS and work on a fixed target of creating an FOSS version of Windows 7! Not XP, not 8, not 2000.... In fact, make it two projects: