Wine 9.1 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

by neustradamus on 1/27/2024, 5:46 AM with 4 comments
  • by nurettin on 1/27/2024, 10:04 AM

    I first installed debian potato 20+ years ago. Had a few friends willing to play StarCraft. With a little effort, I got it working with Wine.

    It feels like Wine was always there to save the day. What an absolute legend of a project.

  • by simonblack on 1/28/2024, 12:06 AM

    While I like the idea of Wine, I still find that running "real" Windows as a VirtualBox guest under a Linux host is what works for me.

    I've tried WABI, Wine and ReactOS over the years, but those never seem to 'just work'.

    My test-bed 'de rigeur' is HP's Scanner and Printer Software. Works wonderfully in 'Windows on VirtualBox', but fails miserably with those others.

  • by detuks on 1/27/2024, 10:45 PM

    I would love to use wine to run multiplayer games on linux, but nowadays all of them seem to have a kernel level anticheat :/

  • by sebazzz on 1/27/2024, 6:16 PM

    Also, with Wine you can you Windows applications on Windows. Sounds insane, but there are use cases, for old programs for which Windows itself offers no compatibility.