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The goal of creating an open sourced version of Windows has always intrigued me. But I can't help but wonder if the time would be better spent working on WINE itself which at least works a whole lot better but needs more resources than trying to build a new operating system mimicking Windows.

I believe this project has been around since 1998/1999 and I admire their determination. But if you want Windows, just use Windows. What I and many other Linux users have been wanting for years is a way to run basic Windows applications within Linux.

Wine bridges this gap somewhat and for many apps it works well. My dream is to see Adobe CS6 running on Linux flawlessly to the point people can ditch Windows completely.



Older versions work, what is so important in the latest version that you can't use the old? How did you get any work done say, 2 to 3 years ago?




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