i heard its good for games,but i want to know about programs.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    36 minutes ago

    In my experience it’s about the same as it was a few years ago. I think most of the effort has gone into gaming. What do you need to run? It might work great already.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    34 minutes ago

    Avoid. It’s mostly games that work well. Use open source alternatives instead.

  • pheusie@programming.dev
    10·
    2 hours ago

    programs

    Consider being more explicit about what you want/need. Some programs work great with wine and others have never.

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Bottles is very hit or miss for me, extremely jank. When it works it’s awesome though.

    Wine usually just works in my experience.

    But I don’t use most of the common problem programs, like adobe products or whatever. It may be better to ask specifically about what programs you’re concerned about compatibility with.

  • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I was able to run Apple AirPort Utility for managing my Apple AirPort Extreme router. It has no web interface, but an app for all Apple platforms, and Windows too. The Utility for Windows is slightly better than macOS or iOS (in my opinion). It works well, and I’m happy that by migrating to Linux I’m still able to manage my router. There’s no more routers from Apple, and there’s no more updates to the app either, so I’m happy it’d stay that way. Perhaps I needed some tiny tuning to run the app, I won’t recall now.

    I have the article about it in my not deployed yet blog, so I’d link it, but I need to deploy it first. (Would take me some time.) I have more details there. But overall, it was good.

    Also, I was able to run Pro100 software for 3D modelling of furniture for my friend. It was working well, I did that with Bottles since his Fedora installation was atomic (Silverblue). It was okay, almost as good as on Windows, with some tiny nuances.

    I’m happy to see others telling about their apps they were successfully launching and working with. Personally, I’m very interested in the graphical stack (like Adobe or Affinity apps), but I haven’t tried them yet. I’ve seen someone has success of installing modern Photoshop, but no more than that.