alt Hacker NewsBad advice. Counterpoint: Wine works really well (especially for old applications) and there's nothing wrong with using it. If people restrict themselves to arbitrary rules then many won't be able to use Linux.
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There is value in those who push by absolutes like this; they are moving the world in their direction; it's important to the market to have some edge-zealots on the demand side. Helps prevent monopoly and is an at-large benefit.
Disclosure: I'm 100% Linux since 2005 (except embed devices (game console, Roku)). All the Line-of-Business stuff "just works".
I found I was unable to install Wine due to package manager conflicts. I had only one Windows program (Everett Kaser's Hero Hearts game) that I wanted to run on Linux, so I wrote my own implementation of the game engine, which is (in my opinion) much better than the original implementation.
Ask IBM how "OS/2 For Windows" turned out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2