I've used Wine occasionally, and I like how it has its own file space - everything lives in a directory that kinda looks like Windows. But I've always wondered, does it provide isolation? Does Wine function as a container? Or do executables have full system access?<p>And does anyone have a good summary of the 32 bit executable story? Those are always problematic on Ubuntu but I never had a clear picture as to why
Just curious: what's the point in running Steam in Wine nowadays?<p>It seems that every Windows game in Steam that I've tried recently (Helldivers 2, Hades 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Talos Principle 2, etc) have been flawless in Steam for Linux since Steam will run them with Proton.<p>Even non-steam games such as Starcraft II work well by adding battle.net setup.exe to Steam as a "Non-Steam game", and selecting Proton as the compatibility layer.
Yes! Yes! Yes!<p>It sounds like Wine might be able to run Paint.NET again.<p>That's pretty much the only app that still has me reaching for Windows at this point.<p><a href="https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55513" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55513</a>
Looking forward to someone making an OpenGL extension to support running 32-bit programs in Wine that need translation to OpenGL with new Wow64 (i.e. without 32-bit runtime). Right now it has bad performance.
What are some applications that people run under Wine that are most useful? I currently use VM for windows but would be interested in what HN users of Wine find as most helpful uses of Wine.