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If someone uses wine, would you be so kind to post here for what programs? Wine would be interesting for Photoshop due to the GIMP CMYK problems. I run Photosh

If someone uses wine, would you be so kind to post here for what programs? Wine would be interesting for Photoshop due to the GIMP CMYK problems. I run Photoshop on Wine many years ago. I just needed it recently and did not get it to work. I had to use a Virtual Machine.

deaddodo 3y ago
You can just view the winedb and get an idea of the applications that are most successfully run and how many people use them (based on report counts): https://appdb.winehq.org/ https://appdb.winehq.org/ Photoshop CS6 supposedly is gold (works, but requires some minor configuration tweaks), so that might be worth trying.
andsmedeiros 3y ago
I've used many times for small programs and such, even though I don't use any wine program on a regular basis. However, I do play games on Proton all the time and everything mostly just works.
zamadatix 3y ago
Intangi Iris, a 32 bit Windows only quoting tool written in the XP era.
Topgamer7 3y ago
I ran the software my bank provides for trading for a while. Mostly just for the graphs.
loa_in_ 3y ago
I successfully flashed smartphones through Samsung Odin flash tool which is only released for Windows.
- evulhotdog 3y ago
  That feels very risky, but I’m glad it worked! What was the backup plan if something went wrong?
  - loa_in_ 3y ago
    It was my own. I'd have to get it to a repair shop.
  - NikkiA 3y ago
    From what I remember of using Odin a decade ago.. it doesn't actually 'flash' the device, it copies the binary blobs to the bootloader partition and tells the device to flash itself from them, then reboots the device. So it should be relatively safe under wine, it'll either work, or it won't.
infotainment 3y ago
The Steam Deck uses a Wine-derived library to run Windows games almost perfectly. It’s honestly the best use of Wine I’ve seen, and it’s arguably finally taken the concept of Windows on Linux mainstream.
- hnfong 3y ago
  A related idea: "Win32 (via wine) Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624
aninteger 3y ago
IDA Pro Free version (5.x). I use it because I'm more familiar with it than Ghidra.
jamaicahest 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) is driving Steam running windows games on Linux
hulitu 3y ago
My experince: 15 years ago (on 32 bit x86 linux) it run most of the windows programs fine (office, age of empires, photoshop). 1 year ago: installed on a x86_64 linux, will not run x86 32 bit windows programs wuthout 32 linux libraries. On x86 linux with 32bit programs it will need additional programs from Microsoft (msvc runtime ?) to be able to run some program (total commander ?). I just gave up.
- happymellon 3y ago
  Wine is a translation layer. If you are running 64 bit Linux, then unfortunately you will need to install 32 bit Linux libs to run 32 bit Windows software, but normally that's pretty straightforward.
mmwelt 3y ago
PDF-XChange Editor[1] is a very good PDF viewer and annotator. Unfortunately, no Linux equivalent comes close, IMHO. Fortunately, it runs very well on Wine[2]. [1] https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor [2] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=15599 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
baldomo 3y ago
Personally, I run WinBox on Mac and Linux to manage my Mikrotik router at home, either locally or through Wireguard
lproven 3y ago
MS Word, for Outline Mode alone. I prefer Word 2003 or failing that Word 97, which is the oldest, smallest, fastest version that handles the same file formats used everywhere until MS invented its compressed-XML nonsense. Word '03 started working around WINE 8 or so. Before that, I had to use Crossover for it.

deaddodo 3y ago

You can just view the winedb and get an idea of the applications that are most successfully run and how many people use them (based on report counts): https://appdb.winehq.org/ https://appdb.winehq.org/ Photoshop CS6 supposedly is gold (works, but requires some minor configuration tweaks), so that might be worth trying.

andsmedeiros 3y ago

I've used many times for small programs and such, even though I don't use any wine program on a regular basis. However, I do play games on Proton all the time and everything mostly just works.

zamadatix 3y ago

Intangi Iris, a 32 bit Windows only quoting tool written in the XP era.

Topgamer7 3y ago

I ran the software my bank provides for trading for a while. Mostly just for the graphs.

loa_in_ 3y ago

I successfully flashed smartphones through Samsung Odin flash tool which is only released for Windows.

evulhotdog 3y ago
That feels very risky, but I’m glad it worked! What was the backup plan if something went wrong?
- loa_in_ 3y ago
  It was my own. I'd have to get it to a repair shop.
- NikkiA 3y ago
  From what I remember of using Odin a decade ago.. it doesn't actually 'flash' the device, it copies the binary blobs to the bootloader partition and tells the device to flash itself from them, then reboots the device. So it should be relatively safe under wine, it'll either work, or it won't.

infotainment 3y ago

The Steam Deck uses a Wine-derived library to run Windows games almost perfectly. It’s honestly the best use of Wine I’ve seen, and it’s arguably finally taken the concept of Windows on Linux mainstream.

hnfong 3y ago
A related idea: "Win32 (via wine) Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624

aninteger 3y ago

IDA Pro Free version (5.x). I use it because I'm more familiar with it than Ghidra.

jamaicahest 3y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) is driving Steam running windows games on Linux

hulitu 3y ago

My experince: 15 years ago (on 32 bit x86 linux) it run most of the windows programs fine (office, age of empires, photoshop). 1 year ago: installed on a x86_64 linux, will not run x86 32 bit windows programs wuthout 32 linux libraries. On x86 linux with 32bit programs it will need additional programs from Microsoft (msvc runtime ?) to be able to run some program (total commander ?). I just gave up.

happymellon 3y ago
Wine is a translation layer. If you are running 64 bit Linux, then unfortunately you will need to install 32 bit Linux libs to run 32 bit Windows software, but normally that's pretty straightforward.

mmwelt 3y ago

PDF-XChange Editor[1] is a very good PDF viewer and annotator. Unfortunately, no Linux equivalent comes close, IMHO. Fortunately, it runs very well on Wine[2]. [1] https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor [2] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=15599 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

baldomo 3y ago

Personally, I run WinBox on Mac and Linux to manage my Mikrotik router at home, either locally or through Wireguard

lproven 3y ago

MS Word, for Outline Mode alone. I prefer Word 2003 or failing that Word 97, which is the oldest, smallest, fastest version that handles the same file formats used everywhere until MS invented its compressed-XML nonsense. Word '03 started working around WINE 8 or so. Before that, I had to use Crossover for it.