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Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's u
by bandrami 10y ago
Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?
- weberc2 10y agoAnything in Adobe's Creative Suite.
- Andrex 10y agoDoes Adobe's stuff run well? I'd switch to Linux in a heartbeat if Premiere Pro performed adequately.
- some-guy 10y agoCan't speak for Premiere, but I have a really old copy of Photoshop (7.0) that I run on Wine and it has all of the features I need.
- platz 10y agoAs long as you're not trying to collaborate with anyone, I've come around to The Gimp a bit lately for basic image manipulation w/ layers.
- Theodores 10y agoI did that for a while but then moved to doing things in command line imageMagick with 'eog' to see stuff. Then I moved to php imagick library as the command line tools were a bit 'high level' for what I needed to do. Naturally I also moved away from Adobe vector editing tools to Inkscape and then to using vim to edit svg files. Having discovered this 'convenient' way of working I am not enthused by the idea of installing some ppa to install Wine to install Adobe Creative Suite so I can get access to some version of Photoshop to then crack/hack it. Seems a lot of work to tweak the levels on an image.
- Cau5tik 10y agoGames
- spilk 10y agoI use it to run esoteric windows-only software on my mac. For instance many ham radio programs are ancient and windows-only, many work fine in Wine. Also I like to run HeidiSQL in Wine because there's not really an equivalent swiss-army-knife kind of tool that I've found that I like better.
- artificial 10y agoI use HeidiSQL on Windows and Sequel Pro on Mac.
- spilk 10y agoUsually my use case is connecting to either MSSQL or postgresql servers, but occasionally MySQL as well... I don't think Sequel Pro does anything other than MySQL, does it?
- zem 10y agoamazon kindle app, to get my books into calibre
- allemagne 10y agoGaming is a big one too, but maybe less so now than in the past.
- bandrami 10y agoHonestly since Steam came over I haven't really had an issue gaming. Though I'm pretty much exclusively an RTS player, and I know those are easier to port; FPS/action gamers may have different needs from mine.
- ronjouch 10y agoTag&Rename [1], a still maintained Windows-only shareware excellent at tagging music. Occasional use, Linux equivalents suck in various ways, it's perfectly configured to my needs, and works perfectly in Wine so why change it :) [1] http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm EDIT: thanks for the Linux alternative suggestions everyone! I have (had) mostly the same complaints about ExFalso / Puddletag / EasyTAG as the ones I posted below about Picard (never tried Beets though). But most importantly, given this olde windows tool has been working fantastic for years, I don't see any reason to migrate my config and trust and habits :)
- lotyrin 10y agoWhat are the shortcomings you find in Picard?
- ronjouch 10y agoLast time I tried (which may be old): performance, opaqueness in what the musicbrainz magic is supposed/about to do to my files, lack of features and UX conveniences making it impossible to reproduce my stupidly picky tagging / filenaming scheme :)
- brotherjerky 10y agoLet the computer do the work, I recommend beets which pulls Musicbrainz data: http://beets.io/ http://beets.io/
- tombrossman 10y agoBeets is great and it's the primary way I tag music, but it isn't very beginner friendly. Worth learning though. For something much simpler I recommend EasyTAG: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG
- flukus 10y ago>Let the computer do the work I've had mixed success with this before when it comes to organizing media. Is there any app which takes the middle ground of doing the work but letting the user confirm?
- d0vs 10y agoiTunes, OCRing PDFs.
- pera 10y agoOld games for instance :) I love this game from the late 90s called Thief: the dark project from Looking Glass Studios. I don't think there is any way to run it properly on a modern computer without wine or virtualization (which would require a copy of Windows 98).
- hkjgkjy 10y agoJust want to add that yeah, Thief is such a good game. If by chance the developers are reading this message board, thanks!
- jhbadger 10y agoAnd even games not all that old. I'm currently replaying Fallout 3 (from 2008) just fine under Wine. It really is amazingly smooth -- almost as if it were a native game.
- problems 10y ago2008 is literally 9 years old, all the current day titles I look up are basically rated "Garbage". I think this will improve though as the move to Vulcan and DX12 should make porting easier as the APIs are more similar I believe. The most recent big name thing I could find was WoW - which, while originally from 2003(?) is actively updated and has had some pretty substantial graphical improvements in more recent expansions.
- garaetjjte 10y agohttps://xkcd.com/606/ https://xkcd.com/606/
- bigbugbag 10y agoHow could miss the top 10 platinum ? it is literally on the landing page of the Wine applications database[1]. It has left 4 dead, Team Fortress 2, Civilization 4, etc. More recent than World of Warcraft which is only rated gold. Then the Gold list has starcraft 2 (Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void), the sims 3, Final Fantasy XIV, Fallout 3,... Though none of these are current day, they are not old games. [1]: https://appdb.winehq.org/ https://appdb.winehq.org/
- EamonnMR 10y agoOne I can think of right off the bat is gaming, especially old games that might never be ported to Linux (or, for that matter, remain compatible with newer versions of Windows). Also, for a while (before they DRM'd it) I ran the Reason DAW on a linux box. They didn't have windows 7 drivers for my MIDI keyboard at the time, but they did have Linux drivers somehow.
- jedimastert 10y agoAbleton runs pretty well from wine too. Almost no messing around
- bigbugbag 10y agobitwig has a native linux version.
- broodbucket 10y agoI'd imagine the main issue is VSTs.
- squarefoot 10y agoSome VSTs work flawlessly, others can be problematic and others do not work at all. You need to check them one by one, but surely a lot of them work. (edit): VSTs incompatibility doesn't just affect WINE but Windows itself from version to version. If you take a look at Reaper (reaper.fm), it has some options to run VSTs in various compatibility modes. This paired with WINE's ability to fake a different Windows version "emulation" should help with more problematic VSTs.
- hrnnnnnn 10y agoThere are some VST bridge programs that use WINE underneath. I haven't actually used any yet so I can't attest to their usefulness. https://github.com/abique/vst-bridge https://github.com/abique/vst-bridge https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave
- teach 10y agoBack before the demise of what.cd, I used Wine for Exact Audio Copy. As far as I know, there was still no "approved" cd ripper that would run natively on Linux.
- mixedCase 10y agoI remember opening the thread shortly before WhatCD died. Whipper, a fork of Morituri had passed all the tests and was awaiting admin approval for at least 6 months.
- aidenn0 10y agoWhat do you mean by "approved"? I've used cdparanoia for years, and abcde is quite a nice frontend for it.
- voltagex_ 10y agoWhatCD was a torrent tracker focusing on high quality and rare audio files. Your upload wouldn't be accepted if it wasn't made using an approved ripper.
- neckro23 10y agoPlaying Spelunky on my Macbook. No, really. It's pretty killer for running older / less demanding games. Lots of older games work better in Wine than they do in modern Windows, if at all. Also, for some indie games with half-assed Mac ports I've found it's often better to just run the Windows version in Wine. I suppose it works with productive Windows apps too...
- rrdharan 10y agoI use it to run the 1Password app on Ubuntu.
- timeu 10y agoI was considering of using it also. How good is it ? Are there any differences, restrictions ? Currently I use the 1password web version.
- rrdharan 10y agoIt's a bit of a slog: (1) You have to get Wine working, which can be kind of a hassle - there are a million different guides and ways to configure Wine especially wnen you factor in 32-bit versus 64-bit, winetricks, staging versus devel, etc. It's hard to sort through all the potential ways and figure out the simplest thing to do, which is basically: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds $ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel $ wine ~/Downloads/1Password-4.6.1.617.exe <Now launch 1Password via the .desktop launcher that should have been created for you> (2) The password helper won't automatically start, so you have to choose "Restart 1Password Helper" from the Help menu after you start the main application. Then assuming you want to use the browser extensions, (3) You have to disable browser signature verification under Help->Advanced (while you're at it you might as well "tune for performance"). (4) The browser extension shortcut keys won't work, so you have to click the extension button instead of simply hitting Ctrl-\.
- gnufied 10y agohmm interesting. I never had to do any of Wine configuration on Ubuntu or Fedora. 1. sudo apt-get install wine 2. wine ~/Downloads/1passwod-blah.exec On first launch wine configures itself and default configuration IMO works fine for running 1Password. Last piece of puzzle is, making sure Password agent starts automatically when you login to dekstop so I have little .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart - https://gist.github.com/gnufied/c0615a8a90d21a8d575590b5001fbb72 https://gist.github.com/gnufied/c0615a8a90d21a8d575590b5001f...
- LeoPanthera 10y ago
- rodelrod 10y agoEvernote, sqlyog, MS Office (for compatibility or the more sophisticated functionality of Excel). Adobe stuff I run on virtualbox. I have to use Playonlinux and certain versions of the products to make everything work right.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoHow is MS Office on Wine these days?
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoStill illegal I presume.
- yjftsjthsd-h 10y agoIn what way would that have ever not been legal?
- orionblastar 10y agoSome versions like Office XP won't work but Office 2003 does. Office 2013 will install using PlayonLinux but won't activate or update or load templates from the Internet. Myself I find Libreoffice to be better than MS Office.
- rodelrod 10y ago2007 runs perfectly and is all I need.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoEven with Play On Linux [1] I've found it a lot of hassle to try and run games through WINE. For example I had a whole set of Tom Clancy games (Ghost Recon, Rainbow Five, etc.) running through WINE. Of course I noted how I got them running on the WINE Appdb. Then a couple of years later needed to reinstall - had upgraded OS, changed video card, etc. - and spent ages trying but ultimately failed. WINE's db had been cleaned and removed my reports, handy; and PoL just wouldn't work (possibly the APU??) despite reports to the contrary. Sad, when ones knows these things can work. Even sadder with more modern games when the distributor/producers won't mess with WINE so the player doesn't have to. tl;dr when PoL works it's great. [1] https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ https://www.playonlinux.com/en/
- smoe 10y agoI'm using wine to play Hearthstone. Also briefly tried to run Ableton Life but I gave up and went dual boot instead. Otherwise Linux has everything available I need.
- wcummings 10y agoYou can run it on Windows to run old applications.
- bigbugbag 10y agoSame as before: World of Warcraft and playing other windows game. Probably itunes for those with idevices.
- platz 10y agoFalcon 4.0 AF. Very accurate flight sim; it's old enough that you don't need a cooling tower plugged into your laptop to run smoothly.
- nunodonato 10y agoI have the original falcon 4.0, still in a box. Love the game. How are those "expansions"? Worth it?
- platz 10y agoI tried a bunch of the various mods but they seemed pretty sophomoric and patchy... wasn't worth it for me but i guess yymv
- thoth 10y agoOthers have mentioned games... plenty of those. I have some minor apps I run like Zone Five Software's "Sports Tracks" (exercise logger), gaming helper utilities, etc.
- speeder 10y agoI use Wine on... Windows, to play some games. Windows 8 and onwards seemly have some bugs in DirectX9 or less, and although seemly there is Microsoft employees trying to fix those bugs, those bugs are years old and still exist. Some games when using Wine, work correctly... For example on my Win 8.1 laptop Wine dlls were the only way to play "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magicka Obscura" (without the dlls, the game would render half of the screen black, and the other half flickering like crazy).
- aidenn0 10y agoThere are patches for Arcanum that make it work better on recent windows versions including ones for widescreen monitors. With those I can play it fine in windows 10. Interestingly enough Arcanum was unusable under wine on linux and MacOS for me (it ran at about 1/10 the proper speed), so I now run it under qemu on windows 10.
- harperlee 10y agoThe Witness. I've heard that it is a magnificent game, but it is written with Direct3D 11, and although this Wine release notice states that "More Direct3D 10 and 11 features are implemented" and "Direct3D 11 feature levels are supported.", it doesn't seem to work yet (in "https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33289" https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI... they state that it didn't work a month ago with Wine 2.0-rc1). I have both linux and macos, but no windows computer apart from the work one - and this particular game doesn't seem to work in a VM (https://steamcommunity.com/app/210970/discussions/0/458607518206667851/ https://steamcommunity.com/app/210970/discussions/0/45860751...), with Wine, or in any other way except a native Windows installation. In any case, Wine is superb work so I can't complain (except for John Blow's commercial decision). At least I have the hope that I will eventually be able to play without the need to buy a dedicated computer! Thanks Wine team!
- mmozeiko 10y agoInteresting fact is that The Witness is ported by Nvidia to run on Shield TV (which runs Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nvidia.thekla.witness&ncid=pa-blo-thws-5499 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nvidia.the...
- JayHost 10y agoThat's cool. Does that mean they ported the HLSL to OpenGL and what would be the obstacle stopping a Linux Port?
- Narishma 10y agoThe game is available on PS4 and Xbox One, if you have one of those.
- i_feel_great 10y agoDolphin Smalltalk
- bandrami 10y agoGST user here! :hi:
- BeetleB 10y agoI rarely use Wine. But people use it for: - Photoshop - Accessing their DRM protected ebooks
- abemishler 10y agoRegexBuddy http://www.regexbuddy.com http://www.regexbuddy.com
- tbrock 10y agoMicrosoft Office. /thread
- ardivekar 10y agoReally, check out WPS Office on both Linux and Windows. It's a phenomenal MS-Office clone, 100x better than both OpenOffice and LibreOffice (because it actually acknowledges that MS-Office is a good piece of software).
- oofabz 10y agoI use Gnumeric and Abiword. I like the straightforward UI that doesn't try to be innovative or flashy and focuses on functionality. Do many people actually need a suite of several interconnected office apps? I just need to edit documents.
- pzone 10y agoLots of professional software outside of software development is Windows-only. For a 3d hobbyist, lack of Photoshop and ZBrush makes Linux very hard to switch to.
- 4ad 10y agoPhotoshop used to have a Unix (not Linux) version. A PITY that killed that (and didn't port it to Linux too).
- dijit 10y agoWhere I work, the developers are /very/ Windows-centric, to the point where they can't port their C++ code. So I use wine64 to run their command-line tools on FreeBSD, it works like a charm. :D
- rweichler 10y agomspaint.exe
- executesorder66 10y agoWhy not use Pinta[0] on Linux? [0]http://pinta-project.com/ http://pinta-project.com/
- Eiriksmal 10y agoI use Wine for MP3Tag (best tag editor I've ever used) and foobar2000. Audacious is an excellent, excellent music player/frontend for whatever GStreamer backend you're using, but it can't handle in_vgm for Genesis/Megadrive files, the PSF plugin, and the ADPCM plugin for playing back Gamecube sound files. Foobar absorbed all of the collective years of development effort to make Winamp play everything under the sun. That is slowly trickling into the Linux streamers, but they're not all there yet. Wine is also great for random C# applets that people develop, like a HydrogenAudio tool I use to compare waveforms of FLACs and MP3s to see if the FLAC is a true FLAC or just an already-low-pass-filtered-MP3 converted to a FLAC.
- struppi 10y ago1Password is awesome on Linux using wine. I use it with Vivaldi (and the chrome plugin in Vivaldi). My other current use case is the original StarCraft. I just read (on the appdb) that the 32bit version of Lightroom now works with wine, so I'll try that too - soon. Now I am hoping for the "Affinity" tools (Designer, Photo), but they are still rated as "Garbage" in the appdb.
- blauditore 10y agoNotepad++ - I once tried a bunch of Linux tools for editing a large text file (GBs), but none of them was performant and usable like N++ with Wine. This was a couple years ago, maybe things have changed since.
- WildGreenLeave 10y agoFor opening large files Sublime Text is my go-to editor. I haven't tried multiple GBs yet, but everything around 1Gb is going fine.
- xs 10y agoI'm on a MacBook pro and use wine to play Skyrim. That was quite a wtf moment when I first got it working. Mods and all!
- gpderetta 10y agoI spent one evening trying to figure out why it was extremely slow (1fps) and why there were some rendering artefacts. Then I found out I was running with nouveau instead of the proprietary nvidia drivers (this was a new OS install on a new machine). After switching drivers it run extremely well.
- dschulz 10y agoI use it all the time (in macOS and Linux) for running MikroTik's[1] configuration tool (named "winbox.exe"). [1] http://www.mikrotik.com/ http://www.mikrotik.com/