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On 2025-04-09 18:40:03 +0000, candycanearter07 said:

> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote at 03:16 this Tuesday (GMT):
>> On 2025-03-24 19:52, Joel wrote:
>>> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I could use Agent simply for its archives of old messages, and use
>>>>> another app for live Usenet functions, but I *like* using Agent, for
>>>>> all its datedness, it still does what I like it to do.
>>>> 
>>>> Right.
>>>> 
>>>> Meaning that Linux cannot fulfill all of your needs.
>>> 
>>> That's patently stupid.  I could use something other than Agent.  I am
>>> using Agent under Linux.  Deal with that.
>> 
>> No. You're using Agent in an emulator under Linux; costing you
>> performance, when you claim that your needs for performance are so high.
> 
> 
> Wine Is Not an Emulator

It depends what system you're running WINE on as to whether it performs 
as a quasi-emulator or a quasi-virtualiser, but either way it still is 
not running the app natively either, so there is still a performance 
penalty.

Then again, WINE and similar 'translation' apps are such utter crap 
that only work on specific hardware and OSes that nobody with a brain 
actually uses them. They screw up at the slightest update to either 
WINE or the OS meaning you have to rebuild the "bottled app" yet again 
.... and that's if you're lucky enough to get it working at all.

Trying to run Windows apps without actual Windows is always going to be 
a ridiculously silly idea that will never work properly.   :-\