Convert Linux to Windows
Published on: 2025-05-23 11:34:02
Convert Linux to Windows
Thesis: We should create a distro of Linux that runs Windows binaries by default via Wine.
The Linux Environment is Unstable
I can pull down a 20 year old exe and still run it today on Windows. Try doing the same with a Linux binary that's just a year old. There's no guarantee that it will be able to run based off some update that has happened. There's also no guarantee that a binary produced today on Linux will even work on the various distributions of Linux today due to the same installed library version problem.
While the Linux syscalls themselves are very stable and reliable, the c library on top of them is not. Practically all of userland is based on libc, and therefore by proxy Linux itself has a binary compatibility problem.
Binary Distribution is a Problem
Because of the problems listed above (and more), there is no good way to distribute binaries for Linux. There are four (yes four!) major ways to distribute binaries, and they all have problems:
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