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Wine is a mess, to be honest. It's amazing in that it gets Windows applications to work on Linux. The first time I tried that, I was amazed and so very very gra
by zo1 11y ago
Wine is a mess, to be honest. It's amazing in that it gets Windows applications to work on Linux. The first time I tried that, I was amazed and so very very grateful as I made a full switch to Linux one day without looking back (too-much).
But from a usability perspective, it seems to still be a "second-class" citizen in the Linux world for lack of a better way to phrase it.
Some applications create a separate set of "windows" folders, so interoperability between them is a pain. Click and drag support, just doesn't work properly. The folder structure thing seems to be really jarring for me, as I figured it would be as easy to use as Cygwin's folders on Windows, but somehow isn't.
Any who, it's not a perfect or exhaustive criticism, but Wine is still not a good "drop-in" replacement, even if it does amazing things.