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Aren't Wine / some virtualization like VirtualBox seamless mode viable options?
by lambdaba 5y ago
Aren't Wine / some virtualization like VirtualBox seamless mode viable options?
- Le_Dook 5y agoSome software are hit and miss, or just fail to work on wine. Big one for a lot of people is the Affinity suite.
- tobz1000 5y agoI've had no luck with Photoshop in Wine or VB seamless mode (PS's custom window decorators are probably the reason for the latter). A full-desktop Windows VM is still good enough with guest extensions though, so I can easily resize the whole Windows desktop with just a maximised PS window inside.
- underscore_ku 5y agoWINE is an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator"
- kevingadd 5y agoVirtualBox is a horrible way to run games of any kind. The driver support for graphics is miserable.
- juusto 5y agoFrom what I saw only old versions of the software I need run and when they run lots of little things are missing. I would call software with that amount of quirks and performance issues pre-alpha quality. So, I can use my MacBook for Adobe for now until they come to their senses.
- em3rgent0rdr 5y agoProton is a fork of Wine. Just more tailored towards steam games.
- brnt 5y agoactually, proton is two things: wine+dxvk. dxvk is a windows (!) program that translates directx to vulkan. between the two of them theyre all thats needed to run games. proton is in addition funded and tested thoroughly by a critical audience, linux gamers ;)