There already is already a non-kernel way to block wine the wine devs can do nothing to very little about.
Those handicapped blockers just don't use it.
If your read the wine developers communications about blocking attempts you will find them refer to it.
I think I know which one they mean.
Much like the wine devs I'm not going to name it, because somebody with the intent of blocking wine might read it.

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What always surprises me about coc's is their genericness.
Take for example this one.
It claims to be specifically designed for open source communities, but it's easy to see this one being implemented on a forum or really any place where people communicate which each other.
Were I to design one for open source community COC's, I would at least include clauses forbidding significant amounts of off topic communication, include a definitions clause at the top and included a policy with dependency projects.

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Bazwokkels.
I just happened to look up the Mono project under Wine and now I see how big a thing this actually is.
The wine people now control Mono main and this patent pledge [External Link] remains.
The wine project bought itself some minimal protection against microsoft patent strikes.
They've now a part of their project they can safely update without threading on patented toes.
I'm currently not aware if they would be allowed to add lgplv2 code to mono, but at least they can dodge microsoft patents.

Edit: I read the patent pledge a little better and it doesn't apply to new stuff(or more accurately to things not written by xamarin and/or microsoft.)

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I think this is an interesting take to the handheld space.
Arm linux for gaming.
Arm is basically the same sacrifice Valve made with Linux(compatibility and preformance) again for much of the same benefits(price decrease, battery life, openness, etc.)

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Quoting: xavi

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: xaviI want to use it as a computer to run a dotnet Linux application. I will buy for sure if:

• dotnet is working there


• screen is tactile


• device is not slow.

SteamDeck is too much for the application.

"dotnet is working there"
Depends on your dotnet version.
Everything above 7 doesn't work.

Need 7

In that case you can at least get it working.
Mono and Dotnet both provide a Linux compatible implementation of Dotnet.
I think you want Dotnet.

They're both pretty inter platform, so you can also test whether it would work on your main device.

Do not and I repeat do not test dotnet framework.
What distinguishes framework from core is that it's closed source and incompatible with everything that is not windows.

Here is a forum thread about the dotnet question:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/7981-running-net-core-asp-net-core-on-armbian-orangepi-pc2/ [External Link]

To the other questions:
2. It has a
5.5" 1080p AMOLED 16:9 screen

3. It will run a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

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Quoting: xaviI want to use it as a computer to run a dotnet Linux application. I will buy for sure if:

• dotnet is working there


• screen is tactile


• device is not slow.

SteamDeck is too much for the application.

"dotnet is working there"
Depends on your dotnet version.
Everything above 8 doesn't work.

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Quoting: Geppeto35

Quoting: PyrateI wish there's better ways to run these statistics, as I know many people including myself either directly or indirectly use browser agent switchers. On Librewolf (what I use), everyone has a Windows user agent by default.

I also use a windows user agent on all my computers and on the computers I installed in my family and friends, and for long (since ~2000) that's why linux is always underestimated on personal computers. Like Steam always asks me a report the ten minute I will be on my dual boot testing if the game that had trouble on my linux is due to OS, while I spend 90% of my (gaming) time on linux.

To get back to the news: As this increase is clearly due to Chineses:
What's happen in China so people are moving into linux that fast? End of windows XP or pirate licences? Some USA's laws on patriotic stuff? Political decision from China's government? Governmental changes in OS making this fast increase in Linux?
Do we know why?

China is busy with an economic meltdown, maybe that has something to do with it?

Partly due to western sanctions.
Partly due to internal anti-trust.

western sanctions:
One of Trumps election points was that he would take on China and he did so.
His successor Biden did continue this line.
HongKong lost its special status.
The chip sanctions have intensified.
Kamala Harris(the vice president) visited Taiwan(which ofcourse angered China)
Biden sent Warships.
The Netherlands forbade ASML to sell less chipmachines to China.
European tarrifs on Chinese electric cars.

Internally:
The boss of AliBaba got "disappeared" crashing its stock value.
Later he got back a lot more XI Jing Ping positive, but the stock value never fully recovered.
AliBaba got broken up, crashing the housing market(apparently they were big in banking)
Angry merchants attack the Temu headquarters for unfair trading practices.

It could also come from the strategic goals Xi Jing Ping set for the country.
One of those goal is independence from western software and hardware.
This has let them to publish several Ubuntu distros, which subsequently failed for the expected reasons.
Maybe somebody implemented a functional a way of transitioning.

It could also come from new laws and censorship policies against gaming youth(maximum screen time and all that stuff).
This last one I consider the most realistic

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: Purple Library GuyKind of feels like Mono is a corpse they are graciously allowing the Wine people to bury for them.

That's the strange thing.
Mono is no corpse.
Unity uses it for their game engine.
Android uses it for compatibility.
Basically anyone who isn't Microsoft uses it if they want to participate in the Microsoft dominated dotnet space.

Mm, I was suspicious of that press release, but perhaps not nearly suspicious enough. So if their claim that everyone is/will be using their fork of Mono rather than the main version they're asking WINE to maintain is false, then . . . I dunno. It's not like they can force the WINE people to maintain it, or would have been able to stop them from maintaining a fork if they wanted to. It all seems kind of amicable (assuming the WINE people are even aware this is happening), but at the same time like nothing much is actually going on.

I assure you they do know.
The press release mentions that wine's fork Wine-mono will become Mono.
This is handing over a trademark and possibly a signing key.
The WINE people know about this and potentially extracted concessions from Microsoft of it.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: MohandevirIf Microsoft goes forward with this idea, all kernel level anticheats might become a thing of the past.

Unfortunately, it looks like this will go down the same path as when it happened years ago, where third party kernel rootkit authors will rightfully point out that Microsoft has an advantage if it kicks all other AV software off the kernel but its own.

Unless there's been developments on this that I missed?

In fact, there could be this piece of info:

"Industry analysts believe that limiting kernel access where possible makes sense."

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3483641/crowdstrike-backs-microsofts-demand-for-reducing-kernel-level-access.html [External Link]

For games, it's totally possible, imo, but I'm not Microsoft. :wink:

What Crowdstrike proposes in that article it was already doing and how it took all those systems offline.
Doing your basic stuff with the heavily regulated kernel driver and using user space material to do the actual evaluation.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyKind of feels like Mono is a corpse they are graciously allowing the Wine people to bury for them.

That's the strange thing.
Mono is no corpse.
Unity uses it for their game engine.
Android uses it for compatibility.
Basically anyone who isn't Microsoft uses it if they want to participate in the Microsoft dominated dotnet space.

That Microsoft doesn't want it isn't strange though.
It's by design a thorn in their side.
They build the entirety of dotnet to replace Java of which they just had gotten an anti-trust conviction for the way they had tried to pound it into the ground, because it was portable.
Mono is portable(and open source) dotnet.

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