• peanutbutter_gas@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Exactly what I was wondering. I main Linux since 2019. A buddy of mine sent me a unity demo game that he made ( basically a hello world ). I just did wine hello-world.exe and it ran just fine ( auto downloaded .net runtimes and everything ).

      I don’t expect everything to run flawlessly, but wine has come a long way. Especially with valve support and investment into proton for gaming.

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        11 months ago

        When you’re working on enterprise level stuff, it can be difficult to run any software that you want. There are layers upon layers of accountability that are needed for legal purposes.

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      11 months ago

      Good luck getting support for commercial software if you’re running it under wine.

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        11 months ago

        Oh I didn’t realize that wine was so bad at supporting Windows applications. I’m not a frequent user of it so I just knew it as a “replacement” for windows apps.

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          11 months ago

          It’s not that wine is bad at supporting Windows applications necessarily. If you (or your company) buys software that supports some versions of Windows and you open a support ticket with some issue running in Linux under wine, that’s a ticket that will likely be closed fast as an unsupported configuration.