TIL Solaris is still actively developed, with the last release being from mid-September! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris</a>
I really can't imagine anything worse than trying to support the Windows API. I'm sure there are those of us here who still have nightmares from the famous Charles Petzold "Programming Windows" book. In this 1500+ page tomb the author takes us through writing various "simple" Windows programs that use the Win32 API. Doing this lets you write programs on Windows that have minimal dependencies... But big disclaimer... it ain't easy.<p>Windows API functions are known universally for their monstrous number of parameters. Mountains and mountains of arguments that are 'reserved', 'optional', 'undefined', 'undocumented', 'hidden', 'deprecated', and so on. What made Windows so successful for developers and users was ensuring that every new release remained backwards compatible. That which is Windows biggest feature now becomes it's biggest flaw leading to an inhuman API. I imagine somewhere in hell there is a level reserved for torturing programmers. In this level they are forced to re-implement software with Win32 functions while the devil laughs 'come on! It's only 15,000 lines! You can do it!'<p>Here we see the Wine developers doing this 'for fun.' One can only conclude from this that they are either masochists or have gone totally insane.
Does Directory Opus work on Wine?
I think that's the only app that's keeping me on Windows. Nothing comes close to it in terms of the set of features when it comes to file management on Linux or MacOS.
I can't switch to Linux because I need fully functional Microsoft 365 desktop apps; mainly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Are there any reasonable options beyond running Windows in a VM?