Post #2682424
2026-05-19 04:14 UTC
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@YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2026-05-20 06:12
I believe proton isn’t emulating but rather is a direct instruction layer. I’m ootl for close to a decade plus, but the commonly number cited was you need hardware 7x the power of original equipment to properly emulate.
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@ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2026-05-19 06:32
And they had Skype, which was practically a genericized trademark for “video call–” until first Apple’s FaceTime and then Zoom utterly took them apart. And they had Office, which defined the product category so completely that it’s called “office software–” but then Google Docs took them apart on a molecular level. Microsoft is the king of snatching defeat from the clutching jaws of victory.
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@3abas@lemmy.world 2026-05-19 05:36
Proton (and Wine, what it's based on) are not emulators. They are compatibility layers, it translates Windows system calls to native Linux system calls.
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@MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2026-05-19 05:48
Yes... I actually cannot fathom just how incessantly bad a company can manage to be, and how some people still refuse to realise how there's literally nothing of value to be had from anything made by Microsoft.