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In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 6 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I've never had much luck with Wine running Windows programs, unless the programs were ancient. Maybe I'm just unlucky?

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    At this point, any programs that won't work in Wine either have a component that cannot be run in Linux (kernel level anti-cheat for example) or has a DRM/execution stack that enforces Windows use (ie Abobe.) Most of my Windows emulation is gaming, and I've managed to get Fitgirl installers and even cracks/updates to run through Wine and Proton. My opinion only: At this point any program that won't run on Linux is intentional, either by design, or by neglect.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, exactly. My issues are with the Adobe suite, Affinity and Microsoft Office.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yup, Adobe and Microsoft def a no-go. Especially Outlook.

    For MS, the o365 web apps work as fine as they do on windows. Outlook is nearly at parity with the windows app. (I think they're slowly making the windows apps web under the hood)

    Adobe has to be pre creativecloud

    You can run a windows VM, then use remote-desktop but it completely defeats the purpose unless you're just trying to edge into privacy.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    If you're still dual booting, check out Winboat. It's the uno reverse of WSL on MS. TBH Hearing good things about it. They are working on GPS passthroughs as well. Still in beta but it's watch everyone is watching right now.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    It really depends a lot on what programs you are running, what exact version of Wine/Proton/... you are running and how it's configured.

    Wine is finnicky, but it can totally also just be bad luck, depending on what you try to run. Wine on x86 works quite well for me. x64 has issues more frequently, and combining it with Box86 to run it on ARM is more miss than hit.

    Also, Wine is advancing pretty fast, so stuff that didn't work a while ago might work now.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    There's other options like wine-staging and wine-devel for newer programs, and also there's paid options like CrossOver which can even be simpler to use than Wine.

    If you want the latest Microsoft and Adobe software, you're likely going to be out of luck, but, if you want the latest Microsoft software you'd probably stay on Windows anyway.

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