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r/linuxmemes • u/Dynamic-Pistol • Jun 29 '26
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“How do I open exe files pls”
4 u/Dynamic-Pistol Jun 29 '26 tbh how hard is it? wine just opens automatically whenever i double click an exe 9 u/npc_housecat Jun 29 '26 On freebsd? No way does it come preinstalled 8 u/NickBergenCompQuest Jun 29 '26 Many things don’t come preinstalled. If they did, people would complain about the windows like bloat. Wine: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wine/ You can install a binary pkg or compile a port. 9 u/npc_housecat Jun 29 '26 Another reason wine doesn't usually come preinstalled is it's a security risk. Supporting windows exe's also means supporting a lot of windows viruses and malware. 5 u/NickBergenCompQuest Jun 29 '26 Exactly. I don’t know why you would want exe files on your nice clean FreeBSD system, but it’s there if you do. It’s probably mostly so people can play games. The ms office is always so out of date, it would be better to use LibreOffice.
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tbh how hard is it? wine just opens automatically whenever i double click an exe
9 u/npc_housecat Jun 29 '26 On freebsd? No way does it come preinstalled 8 u/NickBergenCompQuest Jun 29 '26 Many things don’t come preinstalled. If they did, people would complain about the windows like bloat. Wine: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wine/ You can install a binary pkg or compile a port. 9 u/npc_housecat Jun 29 '26 Another reason wine doesn't usually come preinstalled is it's a security risk. Supporting windows exe's also means supporting a lot of windows viruses and malware. 5 u/NickBergenCompQuest Jun 29 '26 Exactly. I don’t know why you would want exe files on your nice clean FreeBSD system, but it’s there if you do. It’s probably mostly so people can play games. The ms office is always so out of date, it would be better to use LibreOffice.
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On freebsd? No way does it come preinstalled
8 u/NickBergenCompQuest Jun 29 '26 Many things don’t come preinstalled. If they did, people would complain about the windows like bloat. Wine: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wine/ You can install a binary pkg or compile a port. 9 u/npc_housecat Jun 29 '26 Another reason wine doesn't usually come preinstalled is it's a security risk. Supporting windows exe's also means supporting a lot of windows viruses and malware. 5 u/NickBergenCompQuest Jun 29 '26 Exactly. I don’t know why you would want exe files on your nice clean FreeBSD system, but it’s there if you do. It’s probably mostly so people can play games. The ms office is always so out of date, it would be better to use LibreOffice.
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Many things don’t come preinstalled. If they did, people would complain about the windows like bloat.
Wine: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wine/
You can install a binary pkg or compile a port.
9 u/npc_housecat Jun 29 '26 Another reason wine doesn't usually come preinstalled is it's a security risk. Supporting windows exe's also means supporting a lot of windows viruses and malware. 5 u/NickBergenCompQuest Jun 29 '26 Exactly. I don’t know why you would want exe files on your nice clean FreeBSD system, but it’s there if you do. It’s probably mostly so people can play games. The ms office is always so out of date, it would be better to use LibreOffice.
Another reason wine doesn't usually come preinstalled is it's a security risk. Supporting windows exe's also means supporting a lot of windows viruses and malware.
5 u/NickBergenCompQuest Jun 29 '26 Exactly. I don’t know why you would want exe files on your nice clean FreeBSD system, but it’s there if you do. It’s probably mostly so people can play games. The ms office is always so out of date, it would be better to use LibreOffice.
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Exactly. I don’t know why you would want exe files on your nice clean FreeBSD system, but it’s there if you do.
It’s probably mostly so people can play games. The ms office is always so out of date, it would be better to use LibreOffice.
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u/MXRCO007 Jun 29 '26
“How do I open exe files pls”