I don't think it's fair to compare freebsd's Linux compatibility layer to Wine. I've been running on freebsd a lot of Linux binaries of closed source software

I don't think it's fair to compare freebsd's Linux compatibility layer to Wine. I've been running on freebsd a lot of Linux binaries of closed source software 20 years ago and it always worked flawlessly for me. Even desktop stuff like Opera (yes, the one with adds in main window). At the time Wine could run some more trivial programs sometimes, and usually crashed anyway. Wine improved a lot but IMHO it's still unfair to compare those.