Not sure on Windows but with Wine you can totally use Win32 on arm.

It's because wine OS selector actually tries to match bug for bug the OS version you set but Window's one gave up after Windows 7.

Not sure if it's the right solution but it's a description of what happens right now in practice yes.

It also makes support more or less impossible.

Even if we ship as source, even if the user has the skills to build it, even if the make file supports every version of the kernel, plus all other material variety, plus who knows how many dependencies, what exactly am I supposed to do when a user reports;

"I followed your instructions and it doesn't run".

Linux Desktop fails because it's not 1 thing, it's 100 things. And to get anything to run reliably on 95 of them you need to be extremely competent.

Distribution as source fails because there are too many unknown, and dependent parts.

Distribution as binary containers (Docker et al) are popular because it gives the app a fighting chance. While at the same time being a really ugly hack.

Indeed, I think those sanctions did better than 10 years of talks for the digital euro

That's already what I'm experiencing even without forcing anything, the LLM creates a lot of "is 1 = 1?" tests

Personally I just can't, I really hate the UI and the software stack.

Sure as long as you are in the terminal you don't notice it but at some point you are going to need to open Finder (and Finder really sucks, sorry) and you are going to need to install software and homebrew is in the same category as npm.

> and homebrew is in the same category as npm.

Homebrew runs against a curated and tested package repository maintained by a dedicated team of vetted maintainers.

NPM is free-for-all with zero curation. Anyone can upload whatever they want.

> it's clear by now from all the security problems which happened in homebrew

What kind of security problems do you mean?

> I really don't want to build everything from source

Why do you think that Homebrew forces you to build anything from source?

May I introduce you to https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/25/tourists-for...

All the people in this list are criminals of various kind, money laundrers and some of them even terrorists.

You should ask yourself the opposite, why people supporting Russian views in the EU often are from a criminal background?

Labeling everyone on a sanctions list as a “criminal” or “terrorist” dodges the core issue, which is the erosion of due process. EU sanctions are administrative measures, not criminal convictions: people are listed by executive decision, often on the basis of political and security assessments, without indictment, trial, or a judgment by an independent court. That means being sanctioned does not logically equal “proven criminal”; it means the person has been designated by a political body that, by design, operates outside the safeguards of criminal procedure

Fine, the day it affects real people, I'll also push for a change. I doubt it will ever be though.

For now excuse me but I won't cry for the poor money laundrers of the Russian mafia and their yachts.

This list is public as well, feel free to consult it.

Personally I find Vietnamese and Chinese to be about the same difficulty overall, just not on the same areas.

Vietnamese is massively harder to pronounce with way less room for mistakes whereas reading is easier.

Have you read their document? They require Google Wallet with the Google Play Services to prove your id on your desktop computer, it's absolute insanity. No thanks.

I've never seen a legitimate use case where I need to prove my identity to use a website anyways.

Great, so the copyright conglomerates have nothing to complain about if it's useless then.