That's funny, I had a dream about running a program in WINE last night
Wine 8.5
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Re: Wine 8.5
#12I'm constantly so astonished by how well Wine works these days. I remember the first time I heard about Wine, decades ago, and thinking "yeah, right!" But by God, they pulled it off. I would not have been able to move to Linux full-time without Wine. Thanks!
What Windows software do you still need on Linux?
Excel. Nothing comes close really
Re: Wine 8.5
#13I'm constantly so astonished by how well Wine works these days. I remember the first time I heard about Wine, decades ago, and thinking "yeah, right!" But by God, they pulled it off. I would not have been able to move to Linux full-time without Wine. Thanks!
What Windows software do you still need on Linux?
I use one fully open-source program (LMMS) which I've found a PITA to build reliably. But the Windows binary under WINE just works.
We have a stable binary format for Linux! It's Windows.
Re: Wine 8.5
#14I'm constantly so astonished by how well Wine works these days. I remember the first time I heard about Wine, decades ago, and thinking "yeah, right!" But by God, they pulled it off. I would not have been able to move to Linux full-time without Wine. Thanks!
What Windows software do you still need on Linux?
Winbox (Mikrotik configuration tool). Mikrotik seems to go out of their way to make sure it is compatible with Wine.
Re: Wine 8.5
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
What Windows software do you still need on Linux?
I use one fully open-source program (LMMS) which I've found a PITA to build reliably. But the Windows binary under WINE just works. We have a stable binary format for Linux! It's Windows.
Use Guix, everything gets compiled fine, no matter what. If you need non-free because of $HARDWARE reasons, use nonguix, (or just a non-free kernel to avoid polluting the userland), but I won't help you on that.
Altough you can install guix on any GNU/Linux distro, on top:
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/System-Installation...
Then, run
guix pull
as a non root, and next,
guix package -i lmms
Re: Wine 8.5
#17Just wondering, are there some things Wine can do that Windows can't? (Besides run on Linux)
Re: Wine 8.5
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Winbox (Mikrotik configuration tool). Mikrotik seems to go out of their way to make sure it is compatible with Wine.
I suspect mikrotik devs to work on linux...
Can you compile code from within Linux to run on wine..?
I know clang supports Windows, but I haven't heard anyone have a crosscompilation setup like that (sounds handy!)
Re: Wine 8.5
#19Just wondering, are there some things Wine can do that Windows can't? (Besides run on Linux)
Yes. Run 16 bit apps on a 64 bit OS install. A lot of old PC games no longer have 3D acceleration support on modern Windows like Jedi Knight I. On Wine the 3D acceleration just works. You can get Windows to do this stuff too of course but not out of the box.
Re: Wine 8.5
#20Is wine receiving patches from Valve's fork or are they completely separate at this point?
Proton developer here, working for CodeWeavers. Everything we develop goes preferentially in Wine, and is kept in Proton as a "hack" only when a solution clean enough for Wine is unfeasible or too complicated. Proton is periodically rebased onto Wine, so everything in Proton and not in Wine is additional rebasing work, which we'd like to avoid as much as possible.