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Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

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[โ€“] patatahooligan@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would highly advice against using Wine. It requires constant root access, just like virus scanners, making your system vulnerable.

This can't be right. Was it maybe a particular workflow you used that required root access? I know I've used wine as part of Steam's Proton as well as via Lutris and neither app has ever requested privilege escalation. I've also run wine manually from the terminal also without being root.

[โ€“] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Maybe it changed recently, but this is what I know about wine. Many Linux friends of mine all advice against it.