• Scott
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        74 months ago

        I refuse to use 2 because it breaks all my shit.

        OG WSL 1 for me, or just Linux lol

        • Possibly linux
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          34 months ago

          Qemu if you can get it. It is a little hard to learn but it can use Hyper-V acceleration

          • Lucy :3
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            64 months ago

            It’s harder to set up windows without giving microsoft the right to let 72 virgins rape your ass than to use QEMU.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    My personal favorite acronym like that definitely goes to AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) that if I remember correctly had to - for legal reasons - change the name. Rather than come up with a completely new name, went with AROS Research Operating System.

    Edit: name change was apparently to avoid any trademark issues with the Amiga name.

    • @[email protected]
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      I wrote a rule engine for processing data called ORE - ORE Rule Engine I wanted to call it Odoyle Rules Engine. It had a QueryTracker, that had a RulesAppliedQueue aka a QT with a RAQ. This is what happens when you have 4 friends from college working in a 4 pack office.

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      It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator” as well as “WINE’s Is Not an Emulator”, but I think for both legal (trademark) and logistical (it really isn’t an emulator) reasons, you’ll never officially see that bit sanctioned

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      Pine was already taken by an email reader. One of the early ascii email readers was called elm, for ELectronic Mail. Pine was made after elm and it stands for Pine Is Not Elm.

      • skulblaka
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        I’m starting to get the impression that most software older than me is defined more by what it isn’t than by what it is.

  • @[email protected]
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    My favorite software acronym is PINCE, the reverse engineering tool that’s similar to Cheat Engine in Winblols, that stands for PINCE Is Not Cheat Engine.

      • @[email protected]
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        144 months ago

        I really wanted this to be true but according to Wikipedia that’s an unofficial backronym. :( Sorry to be Debbie Downer.

      • JackbyDev
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        24 months ago

        I’m partial to a good TLA (three letter acronym) myself.

    • @PenisDuckCuck9001
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      Well looks like I finally found a cheat engine equivalent for Linux

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        Game Conqueror also works, but is missing a lot of features too from what I can tell. Don’t know how it holds up against PINCE.

        I’ve had success getting CE to run with Proton though, specifically by using SteamTinkerLaunch to run it as additional custom command with the game. There are other ways too, like protontricks. In my experience, it has been mostly stable, with the occasional freeze, but generally usable for pointer scanning and such.

      • Ace! _SL/S
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        Sadly not, Cheat Engine has a whole lot more features. PINCE is still very good though

    • @PenisDuckCuck9001
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      Some day when x86 is a thing no one has anymore, they’re going to put x86 emulation in wine and then it’ll actually be an emulator.

  • don
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    GNU Hurd.

    It’s time [to] explain the meaning of “Hurd”. “Hurd” stands for “Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons”. And, then, “Hird” stands for “Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth”. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

    – Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell

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    True is not cause it not emulating CPU/GPU of a different device, is more like a translator of sorts as it translates windows modules like directx and stuff in a way that Linux can interpret them and use them!