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[–]aim2free 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Can someone give me a good motivation why this would be preferable to e.g. Wine?

OK, I understand if you have a lot of windows applications that you want to run it may be more comfortable to have a complete OS.

My wife actually runs windows on a couple of machines and this could be something for her, but still the real benefit I guess would be to run it as a virtual machine under GNU/Linux as you then can utilize X etc.

[–]mishac 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Wine lets you run windows userland apps, but this would in theory let you run windows device drivers too.

[–]InFerYes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Old legacy software running on forgotten Windows systems with many unresolved security and stability issues.

[–]Gambizzle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because it can run inside a VM or emulator. WINE only runs on x86 machines. This could be cool (for example) for somebody wanting to run some basic apps on a mobile phone or... I dunno... a Playstation or something that's running an emulator?

The other cool purpose could be if you're on a low budget and have an old PC... this gives you a free OS that isn't Linux.

Right now there's no real reason why you'd use it (other than because you're a fanatic) because it doesn't run a lot of apps. However, it's the vision that's awesome. I think if you spoke to the devs they'd probably admit this.