Wine 9.9 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

I&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;s the point in running Steam in Wine nowadays?<p>It seems that every Windows game in Steam that I&#x27;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 &quot;Non-Steam game&quot;, 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&#x27;s pretty much the only app that still has me reaching for Windows at this point.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.winehq.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=55513" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.winehq.org&#x2F;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.