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And on a windows 95 supporting machine you could maybe run OS/2 2.1. On a windows 3.1 machine you could -badly- run OS/2, but not OS/2 2.0. On a windows 3.0 supporting machine you could not run OS/2. Windows always had compatibility AND reasonable system demands. OS/2 was compatible only in the sense that with a vastly more expensive computer you could run windows, dos and os/2 apps. Wine is a huge part of the solution to that.Д®xactly. But there's still that application barrier for migration. Distributions with commercial backing and their hardware partners have been solving the hardware issues. People are becoming more aware of the viability of the platform. 20% of 20% of 20% is 0.8%, which incidentally is the exact market share we had.Д«ut we're solving those issues now. But our biggest problem was that they couldn't come even when they wanted to: 80% never heard of us, 80% of those left had hardware issues, 80% of those who remained had an application with no native equivalent. We tried to get people to want to migrate badly enough by excelling in other areas (like being free). We simply weren't strong enough to cajole users into defaulting with us because we could hold all their favorite apps hostage if they didn't. We faced a chicken and egg problem, and had no first-mover advantage. Like it or not, Linux was effectively second to the party. OS/2 was strictly more expensive than Windows, and required you to buy a copy of Windows to run the Windows apps. That absolutely wasn't the case with OS2 and Blackberry. The reason I think it's hogwash is that, application compatibility being equal, people would actually prefer to run Linux over Windows.

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Alternative phone operating system vendors should think very carefully before building in Android app compatibility, lest they suffer the same fate as OS/2.' Blackberry once touted that you could easily run Android apps on its BB10 operating system, but that ended up not helping the company at all. 'The second lesson of OS/2-to not be too compatible out of the box with rival operating systems-is a lesson that todayвЂ™s phone and tablet makers should take seriously.

On the other hand, writing a native OS/2 application was a lot of work for Windows developers.' 'OS/2 ran Windows apps really well out of the box, so they could just write a Windows app and both platforms would be able to run that app. I've been a fan on Wine since I tried it, but I think this article on OS/2 from Arstechnica argues very well, on a historical basis, for why Wine unfortunately won't be helping getting people to use Linux on a large scale. I've used Wine quite a bit, and have benefited so much from it that I bought CrossOver, just to support it. But in the future, you won't even know you're using Wine - it'll silently be powering your steam games. A single bug can render an application completely unusable, so from a user's perspective it's very hard to tell whether Wine is 99% done or 5% done. I do understand some of the skepticism though.

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Wine is quickly becoming the porting tool of choice for making Mac and Linux versions of Windows software - often times the game will work without modification, and when it doesn't these days it is dramatically cheaper to improve Wine than to rewrite applications.

I've contracted with a good number of companies who use Wine for critical business purposes. Some use it for some sort of critical business function like a legacy app. That means millions of users of my packages.

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Increasingly, I hear the inverse - people who are happily using Ubuntu now because Wine works well enough.Дata is hard to come by, but my best estimates put Wine's install base at something on the order of 10-25% of Ubuntu users. I hear an incredible number of stories about people who wanted to use Ubuntu, but couldn't because of one Windows app. Over the years I've encountered a lot of skepticism about Wine, with some people even wondering if we'd be better off without it existing. I've been the Ubuntu developer responsible for Wine's packages for almost a decade now.