Mastodawn

I've recently dabbled with #Wine and Winboat, and while it was all pretty fun, my conclusion is still that these solutions really don't help with running Windows programs on #Linux all that much, and don't help with "serious / professional" adoption.

Here are my thoughts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEI95GIRKaU

How to run most Windows apps on Linux, and why it won't really help

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🏳️‍⚧️ Immy 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 10

@thelinuxEXP I’ve always found that Wine is absolutely excellent for gaming and can run most games these days, but unfortunately the same amount of development hasn’t gone into making it able to run desktop apps, making it extremely hit and miss

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Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

@immychan @thelinuxEXP I wonder how much better CrossOver from Codeweavers is in this regard. They seem to focus more on desktop applications.

Of course their advancements eventually move upstream to Wine, but there are a lot of quirks they may take care of which you don't know about in vanilla Wine.

Perhaps we could convince @codeweavers to sponsor Nick at some point for a video? :D