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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️

@alice.averlong.com

MY PRONOUNS HAVE A VIRUS!?

September 19, 2026 at 5:36 PM

Miguel de Icaza

@migueldeicaza.bsky.social

“Win32/linux”: loss32.org

loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux

loss32.org

December 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM

Taro@PROJEKT GODHAND 2.0

@taronuke.net

"Win32 could not create GUI view becasue CreateWindowEx failed with message: The operation completed successfully."

?????

November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM

Emma (IPG)

@invoxiplaygames.uk

getting fucked up off the Win32 Lean and Green

May 28, 2026 at 10:47 AM

pharoproject.bsky.social

@pharoproject.bsky.social

[ANN] Spec-Win32: Experimental native 64-bit Win32 backend for Spec/Pharo github.com/pavel-krivan...

September 25, 2026 at 9:58 AM

qdot

@buttplug.engineer

BUTTDRAW.

WINDOWS.
ANY PAINT PROGRAM.
ANY TABLET (I’ve only tested it on a shitty one but this is hooking win32 ui access).
ANY SEX TOY THAT WORKS WITH @buttplug.io.

COMING SOON.

June 8, 2026 at 1:23 AM

XWine1

@xwine1.bsky.social

We have open sourced SlimEra, a slim Win32 reference implementation of select ERA OS DLLs that we use as a base for our ERA implementation
github.com/XWine1/SlimEra

GitHub - XWine1/SlimEra: Slim Win32 reference implementations of select DLLs from the Xbox ERA OS

Slim Win32 reference implementations of select DLLs from the Xbox ERA OS - XWine1/SlimEra

github.com

June 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM

David Buchanan

@retr0.id

everyone knows win32 is the most stable userspace linux abi

October 28, 2024 at 1:27 AM

Chris Person

@papapishu.bsky.social

oh this looks like it could be fun

Win32/Linux?

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, Win32/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Win32 plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning system made useful by WINE, the ReactOS userland, and other virtal system components comprising a full OS as defined by Microsoft.
Okay, but seriously what is this?

A dream of a Linux distribution where the entire desktop environment is Win32 software running under WINE. A completely free and open-source OS where you can just download .exe files and run them, for the power user who isn't necessarily a Unixhead, or just for someone who thinks this sounds fun.
Isn't this just ReactOS?

ReactOS tries to reimplement the Windows NT kernel, and that has always been its Achilles heel, holding it back from a hardware compatibility and stability standpoint. The loss32 concept is to achieve a similar-feeling end result to ReactOS, but built on a more usable foundation, using components known to work well (the Linux kernel, WINE, everything that glues those together, and a sprinkling of ReactOS userland niceties). As a bonus, the OS would still technically be a Linux distro, so it would be possible to run Linux software when necessary, something ReactOS can't do.
Why build this?

The late-90's-to-early-2010's PC desktop experience was great for power users, especially creative users. Let's keep the dream alive.
WINE has a lot of unfortunate rough edges that people only tolerate because they use WINE as a last resort. A desktop environment where everything runs in WINE will stimulate making WINE better for everyone, whether they're going to use this project or not.
Win32 is the stable Linux ABI!
Because we can.

December 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM

Andrew Robbins

@robbinsa.me

win32, the stable Linux abi

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · Apr 29

Also like sometimes Proton is just the actual fastest version of the game bar none. Like the native Linux build is slower because of differences in engine runtimes. So you have devs developing on Linux, then building a Windows build to upload to Steam so players also on Linux can play it.

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · Apr 29

Microsoft losing the plot to the extent that games running on Linux through a compatibility layer are now not only faster but *assumed to be faster* than games running natively on Windows should be an even bigger story than it already is

April 29, 2026 at 8:24 PM

GIGAZINE

@gigazine.net

なつかしのWindowsXPをブラウザ上で再現した「win32.run」
https://gigazine.net/news/20250808-win32-run/

なつかしのWindowsXPをブラウザ上で再現した「win32.run」

Windows XPをブラウザ上で動作させる「Win32.run」が公開されています。すべてのファイルはクライアント、すなわちユーザーのブラウザ内で処理され、ファイルのアップロードやサーバー側での処理は行われません。

gigazine.net

August 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM

henry

@hdevalence.bsky.social

the life choices that led to "tokio on x86 win32 under wine in macos on apple silicon" shall not be re-examined

December 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM

⚡️🌙

@dystopiabreaker.xyz

it's really funny that linux is de-facto converging on win32 api as its first universal ABI format

May 3, 2026 at 9:58 PM

Dark

@dark.ski

if i have to write another `#ifdef WIN32` i am going to commit war crimes

April 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM

Miguel de Icaza

@migueldeicaza.bsky.social

I had an AI criticize my UI and it said “it’s giving win32” - we have reached AGI.

May 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM

Omar

@ocornut.bsky.social

dear imgui 1.91.6 released!
github.com/ocornut/imgu...
misc fixes/maintenance, elide left on inputtext, crash fix for win32 backend w/ docking & multi program instance.

December 11, 2024 at 2:29 PM

Ryan Cavanaugh

@searyanc.dev

I found a box full of old CDs, including one labelled "Documents - September 2000". In the C++ folder I found a stratego.exe binary that still runs. It has multiplayer? I wrote this?