Cool, but after reading "All the gaming platforms you already know, right here" and searching for Xbox Game Pass or Forza Horizon and finding nothing, I gave up.
Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
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Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if they didnt know about codeweavers using the name? Wine goes into bottles (in the real world)... its a play on words.
Almost anyone using Wine is familiar with the term and CodeWeavers’ usage of it.
I'm sure Microsoft was familiar with not only windows on buildings, but also other OSes' use of the term "window" as a GUI element (dating back to Xerox Alto in 1973), and called their 1985 product "Windows" anyway, so there's precedent.
Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
#53Just use Lutris. It can fetch various flavours of wine and manage your bottles. https://lutris.net/
On one hand, this is also what I use, and it kind of works.
On the other hand... Wine and NVidia seem to not like each other... at all. Every game will require tinkering with Wine and a bunch of things that are supposed to wortk with various NVidia drivers and video adapters. And there's non-zero chance that it simply won't work. Or won't work with your display manager / desktop manager / monitor connection etc.
For instance, I play GuildWars 2, and after a long struggle to find a Wine version that would work with it, I still cannot get 3rd-party extensions to work (eg. arcdps)... and I abandoned all hope of figuring out why: way too many randomly but similarly named libraries with obscure purpose.
Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if they didnt know about codeweavers using the name? Wine goes into bottles (in the real world)... its a play on words.
Almost anyone using Wine is familiar with the term and CodeWeavers’ usage of it.
Maybe I'm the exception (wine user from the very early days).
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#55Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this sarcasm or a joke or a serious question? MS Teams is already cross platform Edit: Luckily I haven't had the displeasure of using MS Teams a couple of years, so I didn't know it was discontinued on Linux.
No, MS Teams for Linux launched in 2019 and unlaunched a few months ago. All we get is a flakey PWA now on Linux. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/end-o... Bing Chat is also crashing in Firefox on Linux when I go to use it, just the tab itself crashes :c Microsoft is coming full circle with their most recent embrace, extend, extingu…
I use https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux . It's "just" a wrapper around the PWA but a very decent one at that.
Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if they didnt know about codeweavers using the name? Wine goes into bottles (in the real world)... its a play on words.
Almost anyone using Wine is familiar with the term and CodeWeavers’ usage of it.
I've been using wine for well over a decade and I was not aware of it. I'm not so confident that your characterization here is accurate.
Everyone I know that uses wine just follows some youtube video to get some game working on linux. They don't spend a lot of time learning about the ecosystem.
Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
#58So what should we use between native wine, lutris etc ...?
Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
#59I wish they had a repository of common softwares.
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#60Oh, it's a GUI for Winetricks. Correct?