Running Windows games on Linux, Running Windows software on Linux via its WoW64 component
Compatibility is a spectrum; some Windows software works flawlessly on Linux, while other software fails or has poor performance.
Running Windows applications with frequently updated, undocumented APIs (e.g., MS Office)
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While WINE has achieved some great success, it's still a spectrum. Some software simply doesn't work, some mostly works, some works but performance is abysmal, and some work flawlessly.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Running Windows applications on *nix systems as a compatibility layer
with the recent introduction of WoW64 in Wine, is now the only software that requires me to run 32bit binaries on my desktop.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Running Windows software on Linux, specifically via its WoW64 component
Wine devs in constand rearrange deck chairs mode, while Win32+Office devs just add a new parameter to an API interface in their 6 month cyclic undocumented API breaking scheme.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Running Windows applications (specifically MS Office) on Linux
You can be Pro-Native without being Anti-Wine. Those irrational people who reject Wine for purely political reasons, are doing much more damage to Linux than Wine will ever do.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Running Windows games on Linux
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