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[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Exactly. Shit needs to just work, period. Why? Because otherwise, I'm the one getting 2AM calls... and I would be OK with that if I'm properly compensated for it... which I'm not.

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (27 children)

Yeah, but that just takes way too much work. You think I really care about the company's/bank's money if I'm not getting paid enough for that job? Security patches can also introduce new problems, like x changes, so y doesn't work, so the main app doesn't work... and what, then I have to manually edit code, introduce the thing that x relied on so that y can work again?

I'm sorry, but this is not your average IT department's job... or if it is, I expect a damn good compensation for it.

I've updated and rolled back snapshots because of shit like this... nah, not gonna try and figure out what the problem was... at least not for the salary I'm currently getting paid. If it burns, it burns, so be it.

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Linux is a smooth ride when it comes to binaries... might miss a few dependencies here and there, but all easily fixed if you just install them.

Windows on the other hand ๐Ÿ˜ฌ...

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What do you mean, dosbox can run programs with a GUI? Didn't know that...

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Holy shit ๐Ÿ˜ฑ (unplugs everything from mains... waits in terror in a corner...)

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Windows has dll hell... so basically, to ge around this, some tools statically link by default. It's not an ideal solution, but it works most of the time... and regarding how unmainatained a Windows install might be (old installs, like Win7) or how badly updated/upgraded it might be (newer installs, Win10 and 11), I guess it is the only choice you actually have to make your app run on as many Windows systems as possible.

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No, it's Vala... and it's not my project, client just wants this to run on Windows.

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

You could even cross-compile from musl... very cool ๐Ÿ‘!

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Not really a solution if it has a GUI, dosbox only runs command line stuff.

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

My thoughts exactly... seems to be the safest route.

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Because they wanna copy the cool kids. Just look at Win11 and say that's not a KDE/GNOME ripoff... though the removal of settings thing, looks more like GNOME.

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