Collabora, the company responsible for developing Wine's Wayland driver and getting it into Wine proper, has just published Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead).
  • rhabarbaEnglish
    0•9 months ago

    Seriously, if you’re so keen on being able to do things that only work on Windows, then even with Wine and all the other workarounds, it’s just a bit of a pain in the arse not to just use Windows directly, isn’t it?

    • @Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      Depends on the software whether workarounds are needed. There’s plenty of platinum rated software that just works with no tinkering.

      I always check games on protondb before buying to make sure I won’t need to use any crazy workarounds and tinkering these days. A decade ago I found it fun and cool to be able to make things work on Wine, but those days are behind me and now I just want things to work.

      I am truly appreciative of the hard work the Wine/Proton/Crossover/etc teams do to make software work with as little fuss as possible.

      • rhabarbaEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        now I just want things to work.

        That’s what I meant. Software which is made to run on Windows will probably work best when run on Windows, right?

        • @fartsparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4•9 months ago

          Hilariously, as I dual boot, a bunch of games I play get higher framerates on Linux via Proton (i.e. PEs/EXEs/DLLs through Wine) than on Windows as my Windows install is barebones as I only use it for gaming. Go figure?!

        • @Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3•9 months ago

          Probably, most of the time, but for work I need a completely different set of software to just work. Trying to get a lot of my scripts, libraries and tools working on Windows is such an exercise in frustration that it’s not worth the bother.

          It’s actually 1000x easier to get Windows software working on Linux than Linux software working on Windows.

          • rhabarbaEnglish
            1•9 months ago

            Trying to get a lot of my scripts, libraries and tools working on Windows is such an exercise in frustration that it’s not worth the bother.

            Tried WSL? It is decent.

            • @Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5•9 months ago

              Sure, but if you’re so keen on being able to do things that only work on Linux, then even with WSL and all the other workarounds, it’s just a bit of a pain in the arse not to just use Linux directly, isn’t it?