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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months ago

Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months ago
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Well, this is surprising isn't it? Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.
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    here we don’t want to deal with this shit anymore, you do all the free work

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      There’s no work left to do on Mono and this is just handing over stewardship of the old code for legacy purposes.

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        The .NET framework adds new APIs all the time

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          .NET Framework was retired years ago by Microsoft and is in maintenance mode.

          .NET (formerly .NET Core) is actively developed and is where Mono was forked into, hence Mono no longer being required. About the only thing Mono might be used for now is running .NET Framework binaries directly on Linux where you might not want the full .NET Framework under wine for compatibility or whatever reason. For example, running TShock (a Terraria server implementation) on Linux.

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            and is in maintenance mode

            probably still like a million annual cost of labor for Microsoft to upkeep

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    I hope this means I can use paint.NET on wine, because that one single program is the reason I dual boot.

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      Paint.NET 3.5 works fine under Wine. Later versions will require better Direct2D implementation from Wine.

      Consider using free software instead: https://lazpaint.github.io/

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      God damn, I’ve got a LOT of music software I still keep Windows for. Cubase and Native Instruments mostly, and there’s not a chance in hell they’ll ever release Linux versions kitty-cri-screm

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        Music software is a very valid reason to avoid Linux

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          kitty-cri-potato

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    Goofy aah C#

    Who remembers mono develop? I do

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