alt Hacker NewsIt is, and if you can switch, it’s highly recommended. I have some pretty bespoke old RS-232 Windows software that was an absolute disaster to get working under Debian with Wine a few years back, so I (and others) might still need to keep a copy of Windows around.
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ihalip • today at 5:56 PM
Might want to try again, Wine progressed a lot in the past couple years.
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sharts • today at 6:12 PM
VMs were not an option?
f-az • today at 5:53 PM
Can’t wait till Fable 6 can just decompile and reimplement old software like that.
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hypfer • today at 7:58 PM
At this point, you might want to consider throwing an LLM at it and just letting it reimplement the thing so that it runs on linux.
They can actually do that. They may not like it, but they can.
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Unironically, I had the most success with old windows programs not when using wine directly but using proton with steam. I personally use umu[1] to use proton without directly needing to run steam. I wrote a small KDE script for .exe files so I can just double click them and they run lol. Or for setups I can right click them and just install them as a setup and it automatically creates a app shortcut I can open.
[1]https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher