I would honestly suggest using Lutris or Bottles as a convenient interface for Wine, rather than trying to figure out Wine itself.

Lots of convenient features and pretty turnkey, depending on what you’re trying to install.

I set up a “Bottles” setup for older 90’s-00’s games and, know what? Sims 1 ran perfectly. Was mind blowing. (Notoriously difficult to run on modern windows)

Hope that is somewhat encouraging!

Yeah, there was that “Glimpse” fork with a mission to primarily change the name annnnd…it was quite short lived.

I would dare to say doomscrolling in lemmy is impossible

Could just be my ADHD but I’d like to contest this. Maybe we need to be really careful about the communities we follow, but besides Linux stuff and some other niche group there’s a lot of politics on Lemmy, and while there’s a lot of insightful discussion there’s a high concentration of unhinged doomerism.

I sometimes feel like I’m addicted, not because of the algorithm but because of the feedback loop that I need to know what’s going on, and I want to reach out and communicate…

LOL the computer monitor: “You are a bitch!” :(

Ahhh, the Internet lol.

Like others said, a lot is just nostalgia. I liked a lot of the aesthetics of the time, from 90’s to XP, to Vista/7.

Also like others said, a majority of actually-affordable peripherals use some sort of specific driver system that’s Windows only. Big example being my cool Mechland keyboard I really like, but it’s one of those where trying to give it cool effects in OpenRGB would brick it, and only their Windows software can access some of its main features.

Not the worst though, I just have a Win10 VM I fire up exclusively to update those peripherals.

WAIT, KNOW WHAT? WORKING VR. I MISS THAT. But M$ themselves killed that one so it’s kinda moot? My WMR Odyssey+ worked GREAT, and since M$ decided it’s a paperweight now, the awesome souls behind Monado are our only hope for decent VR before the Steam Frame. (Which now terrifies me thanks to RAM inflation…)

Ah nice, I use ANGRYsearch for this, but yeah you gotta run its updater on occasion. It’s VERY fast though!

Wait I’m pretty sure there’s Linux screensavers for those and a bunch of others?

I do miss some of the classic Win95 screensavers though. :D

TIL! Sweet! If I can use emojis on my desktop, I have less reason to wreck my thumbs on my phone! :D

(But hey classic emoticons are 4eva! Lol)

Do I miss the read/write speed? No. Do I miss the capacity? No.

…But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.

I’ve seen a few projects that stuff a bunch of flash memory into a floppy for crazy storage capacity, which is pretty cool. Maintains that nostalgia and commands much more respect than one of those ridiculously tiny little USBs that’s easy to lose! :p

LOL! Finding this song in the wild made my week. Thanks for that. XD

Monkey Island is such a treasure:

“You just don’t know when to quit, do you?!”

“Apparently neither did your barber.”

Plot twist: it’s a NORAD system recovery diskette.

Yeah, there’s always somebody that might learn something new by coming across it for the first time. :D

The Icon of Saving!

Sounds like something worth questing for!

(Ethereal choir singing)

☁️💾☁️

I might have a lot of fun things that aren’t legal in California. Never thought my OS would be one, but here we are.

If people went out of their way to learn a damn thing about computers, and all-consuming jobs didn’t force entire generations raised without parents, and maybe they didn’t let their 6 year olds on social media / online gaming / whatever unsupervised, maybe there’d be more backlash to the state and corporations trying to step in as parental figures.

…Wish that wasn’t too friggin’ much to ask.

Servers and data centers have zero business knowing anything about who’s behind my machine by default.

Oh no, people are gonna start being called “Rizzards” soon.

Dicks out for Harambe. 😔

It will get repealed when all the always-working parents can’t stand “teenager smell.”

Those kids ain’t right, Peggy.

everybody gave up on snooping around on my desktop

Bonus points if you can touch-type: Legendless blank keycaps. XD