He casts the spell of InstallShield

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REDACTED@infosec.pub · 18 pts · 10d (6 replies)

Why would anyone ever run windows on a MacBook tho

TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 10d (2 replies)

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…

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d

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.

Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d

Parallels exists I suppose

Mwa@thelemmy.club · 9 pts · 10d (1 reply)

on Intel Macs that used to be somewhat common.

mattyroses@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 10d

Yeah, when I was a .NET dev I used to do that (this was long before .NET on Linux).

SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 10d

It's a remote session.

sfxrlz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d (1 reply)

Why are those called wizards anyway

goodboyjojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d (1 reply)

It conforts me knowing there is a little magical guy in my computer that installs my software for me.

Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 8d

Keep him well fed and your system will run like a well oiled Sterling engine.

Janx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 10d

I doubt "InstallShield" protected the family computer from the dumb things I installed on it... but it's comforting to imagine it did something.