Wine

“WINE is hilariously a more reliable way to run software on Mac than just making the software natively for Mac.”

“now that Wine has improved, win32 binaries is the preferable binary distribution format for Linux”

“The reason Wine/DXVK/Proton works so well is because it didn't fracture itself into a thousand downstream forks”

“My experience of running Win95-Era Games, especially more wonky one like Cavelands on Linux with Wine is far better than on Windows.”

“Wine/Proton has gotten really good, but still requires tinkering, and still sometimes has really bad performance.”

“With the way Asahi Linux, WINE and ReactOS operate - no AI, reverse-engineering has to be very carefully documented - it is much, much less likely someone can complain about violating laws and licenses.”

“making it work in Wine is troublesome enough that I end up giving up before finishing anything of interest”

“I love the idea of Wine acting as the universal interface that lets you run windows apps wherever the heck you want.”

“There are lots of games that work fine in Wine by themselves, but just getting Steam to launch them is a mess.”

“the Wine developers have had reasonable (if tediously slow) success in making it possible to express the same semantics to Linux”

“Endless fiddling with wine to get games to start, now completely solved but it was educational at the time.”

“Wasn't a struggle to set up either: I simply ran the installer as if I was running Windows and then it #justworked.”

“A Win32 binary that runs in Wine is likely to work on more Linux distros than a native Linux binary”

“something in WINE manages to interact so poorly with the window manager that it crashes X altogether”

“it doesn't provide actual SCSI services, its just there for SCSI-using apps to think they have ASPI onboard”

“If anytime I save a project running via Wine has a non 0% chance of it crashing and bringing down my entire work, it's not going to happen.”

“While WINE is impressive, it seems the only real progress for anything past Windows 7 is on paid versions”

“Wine and Proton have gotten so good that outside of modern MS Office, most Windows things just run”

“Through wine ive been able to transition many colleagues accross because software they need will work as they expect it to in linux”

“Amazing that transcription layer/emulation software end up having less issues than running shit native.”

“Everything has gotten so much better as the years have gone on, that this is a perfectly acceptable solution.”

“It really is a pity that there's no working business model around open source maintenance for software like wine.”

“an app using native toolkits (at least the Windows ones) will have better chances of running fine under Wine”

“software, particularly games of the DX9-11 eras to perform better on Wine/Proton then they do under native Windows on the same hardware”

“I ran some games through Wine even twenty years ago but it was certainly not always possible, and usually not even easy.”

“Proton and Wine means there is a single target now, instead of the fragmented mess that is Desktop Linux today.”

“the programs that do work, usually work very well, sometimes even more reliably and faster than under Windows itself”

“I think using WINE over Linux has won as the option to consider if you want to run Windows applications on a non-Windows OS”

“ntsync allows efficient and correct synchronization usage that matches logic of Windows and new wow64 allows running 32-bit Windows programs without 32-bit Linux dependencies.”

“Wine is just getting there, but only with scary messages that say that it's an experimental feature.”

“The Wine team and Valve have made some incredible contributions to the preservation of games on PC”

“because wine and proton are so good and so much easier to support than each individual distro natively”

“I really respect so much about the Wine project. It's been going on for decades, each release gets a little better”

“a number of applications I had previously been using without issue stopped working due to the change they had made to those dlls”

“Vanilla Wine is a bit of a rough experience, I'd only recommend it for advanced users who know what they're doing.”

“There are a lot of things that work remarkably well, but I have some issues with GPU performance”

“I was able to get an old adventure game (Titanic: Adventure out of Time) working just fine on Wine”

“there were significant performance issues originating from wine's reliance on translating dx to opengl”

“I was playing Fallout 3 on WINE well before Valve got involved with minimal tweaks or DIY effort.”

“Linux has gone from a product that is kind of shaky with Windows, to "I can throw a windows program or game at it and it usually works"”