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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!)
Wine 8.5
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Re: Wine 8.5
#22I'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?
Anything 3D modeling related not covered by Blender, and software for 3D printing, just as an example.
The word "still" in your post suggests you expect F/OSS software to eventually become available for all fields of application. But that's not what I see happening; instead, there's no new desktop (as opposed to cloud) software being released at all, much less on Linux. So Wine is here to stay with us to (increasingly) run old Win software out of maintenance, and works surprisingly well. Of course, that's made possible by Win32 itself having excellent binary compatibility in the first place, as opposed to the Linux user land.
Re: Wine 8.5
#23I'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?
Office. And Visio.
Re: Wine 8.5
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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.
Last time I used it was to configure two dual band ceiling access points and their PoE switch, and everything worked flawlessly, both on Debian (desktop) and Manjaro (this laptop). Happened roughly 2 months ago.
Re: Wine 8.5
#25I'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!
Wine (and Proton by extension) is a marvel.
Runs most of my windows software with little to no issue, and is more compatible with older games than Windows 10/11 itself!
Re: Wine 8.5
#26I'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?
Tax software. The most popular in my country is Windows only.
Re: Wine 8.5
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What Windows software do you still need on Linux?
mostly games for myself but I've also needed it for various weird programs that some professor decided we should use for some homework.
It's decent for games on MacOS now too. In particular I was looking at it for playing some FTL mods that are only shipped as windows binaries natively on MacOS a year or two ago (in the end I ended up using Codeweavers Crossover, but I think that the limitations that made me choose Crossover have since been fixed in Wine). I see that a Codeweavers dev is present in this thread (Hi guys, great product, thanks for helping make Wine what it is).
I think that there's still a ways to go for Wine on MacOS at least, like for instance I don't think playing No Man's Sky on MacOS via Wine is viable (or at least it wasn't when I tried a few years ago). I think that's more a limitation of the graphics API MacOS uses though. Supposedly a native port is on the way anyway.
Re: Wine 8.5
#28I'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!
I wouldn't be surprised, if wine became a "compatibility layer" embedded into a wsl in Windows at some point
It is already a compatibility layer to run old windows software that Microsoft no longer supports. I use it for making music, and the number of 20+ years old VST plugins that work exceptionally well is astonishing. The only problem I encountered was some of their installers failing because they reported a negative available disk space, presumably because of a bigger new variable overflowing the older smaller one they use. Running them as a older Windows version didn't work, I suspect the only way to make them run would be to implement a WINE flag to pass the installers smaller variables with that data.
Aside that, I'm amazed at how good the compatibility is.
Re: Wine 8.5
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I wouldn't be surprised, if wine became a "compatibility layer" embedded into a wsl in Windows at some point
It is already a compatibility layer to run old windows software that Microsoft no longer supports. I use it for making music, and the number of 20+ years old VST plugins that work exceptionally well is astonishing. The only problem I encountered was some of their installers failing because they reported a negative available disk space, presumably because of a bigger new variable overflowing the older smaller one they…
You could just create a smaller filesystem in a file, mount it and export is as a Windows drive in winecfg.
Re: Wine 8.5
#30I have mixed experience with Wine, most of the times when I tried playing games it was close to impossible to install them. I go for Parallels Desktop those days (kudos to https://github.com/dreamncn/ParallelsDesktopCrack)