[PATCH 1/5] winecfg: Group together Windows server versions

Ken Sharp imwellcushtymelike at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 11 06:52:26 CST 2015



On 11/01/15 12:14, Nikolay Sivov wrote:

> Okay, so you don't argue that it will mess it up :). Most users don't
> care I guess, but list currently attempts to show older versions at the
> end. It would probably help to show NT version too, and sort directly by
> something like "major << 16 | minor" value, but it could even more
> confusing.

Indeed. I had considered adding NT kernel versions but most users won't 
know what that means (and talking about "kernels" to Linux noobs will 
just confuse things further).

How often do we see "try Windows 2012 R2 mode as a workaround"?

>
> By the way, is it solely your impression that it's hard to use as it is
> now or have you got any forum posts/bug reports where users complain
> about that?

Add some Windows versions and try it out. Windows 10 will be out soon, 
as I'm sure will yet another Windows Server title based on the same kernel.



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