one thing comes to mind.
its the good old days of intel macs and the utter lack of games on linux. if you wanted to play sth, on a mac, you needed to dualboot windows :/
ofc that doesn’t really make sense nowadays…
Because Apple doesn't provide drivers to their proprietary chips. That's why there's a whole reverse engineering effort for that in the form of Asahi Linux.
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Why would anyone ever run windows on a MacBook tho
one thing comes to mind.
its the good old days of intel macs and the utter lack of games on linux. if you wanted to play sth, on a mac, you needed to dualboot windows :/
ofc that doesn’t really make sense nowadays…
Because Apple doesn't provide drivers to their proprietary chips. That's why there's a whole reverse engineering effort for that in the form of Asahi Linux.
Parallels exists I suppose
on Intel Macs that used to be somewhat common.
Yeah, when I was a .NET dev I used to do that (this was long before .NET on Linux).
It's a remote session.
Why are those called wizards anyway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_(software)#History
It conforts me knowing there is a little magical guy in my computer that installs my software for me.
Keep him well fed and your system will run like a well oiled Sterling engine.
I doubt "InstallShield" protected the family computer from the dumb things I installed on it... but it's comforting to imagine it did something.