how good or bad is wine (or bottles) now for windows programs?
2026-03-08 05:08 UTC
Replies (13)
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@pheusie@programming.dev 2026-03-08 05:27
programs Consider being more explicit about what you want/need. Some programs work great with wine and others have never.
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@wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-08 05:30
I was able to run Apple AirPort Utility for managing my Apple AirPort Extreme router. It has no web interface, but an app for all Apple platforms, and Windows too. The Utility for Windows is slightly better than macOS or iOS (in my opinion). It works well, and I’m happy that by migrating to Linux I’m still able to manage my router. There’s no more routers from Apple, and there’s no more updates to the app either, so I’m happy it’d stay that way. Perhaps I needed some tiny tuning to run the app, I won’t recall now. I have the article about it in my not deployed yet blog, so I’d link it, but I need to deploy it first. (Would take me some time.) I have more details there. But overall, it was good. Also, I was able to run Pro100 software for 3D modelling of furniture for my friend. It was working well, I did that with Bottles since his Fedora installation was atomic (Silverblue). It was okay, almost as good as on Windows, with some tiny nuances. I’m happy to see others telling about their apps they were successfully launching and working with. Personally, I’m very interested in the graphical stack (like Adobe or Affinity apps), but I haven’t tried them yet. I’ve seen someone has success of installing modern Photoshop, but no more than that.
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@just_another_person@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 05:35
Seamless. Until you find something that isn’t. Report it if so.
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@Ghostie@lemmy.zip 2026-03-08 05:43
Works great until it doesn’t.
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@booty@hexbear.net 2026-03-08 05:54
Bottles is very hit or miss for me, extremely jank. When it works it’s awesome though. Wine usually just works in my experience. But I don’t use most of the common problem programs, like adobe products or whatever. It may be better to ask specifically about what programs you’re concerned about compatibility with.
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@vivi@slrpnk.net 2026-03-08 05:55
visit appdb.winehq.org where you can see the status of various apps’performance in wine.
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-03-08 06:43
In my experience it’s about the same as it was a few years ago. I think most of the effort has gone into gaming. What do you need to run? It might work great already.
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@eugenia@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 06:45
Avoid. It’s mostly games that work well. Use open source alternatives instead.
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@GriffinClaw@lemmy.zip 2026-03-08 07:28
Bottles only recently had a small update to make it less janky. Their team is working on a complete overhaul, Bottles Next. To be honest, I’ve yet to find a program that doesn’t have a flatpack equivalent (eg OnlyOffice for Microsoft Word) or flatpack version (eg Firefox). But just in case, I have WineCharm installed (Wine GUI)
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@Bullerfar@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 08:19
To be honest, my Ableton Live works like a charm with wine. But a lot of other Windows-only software does not. It depends. I am just lucky all I need does.
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@lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 08:42
Most stuff that runs on Windows is uninteresting because there are superior free alternatives on Linux, but in the cases where I needed it, Bottles is great. I’m not sure what people are referring to in other comments when they say Bottles has “jank”, but for me it works very nicely for the few apps I occasionally need to use it for: Daz3D (just worked), jDownloader (just worked), and Affinity (followed this guide and it worked easily).
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@monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 23:35
Surprisingly good in most cases. Main thing missing for me is support for programs directly talking to USB devices (understandably, the associated driver support is its own can of worms).
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@pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 05:20
For games use proton In case you dont know its a fork of wine designed specifically for games.