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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Does Wine not work for those tools?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good luck getting support for commercial software if you're running it under wine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh I didn't realize that wine was so bad at supporting Windows applications. I'm not a frequent user of it so I just knew it as a "replacement" for windows apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's not that wine is bad at supporting Windows applications necessarily. If you (or your company) buys software that supports some versions of Windows and you open a support ticket with some issue running in Linux under wine, that's a ticket that will likely be closed fast as an unsupported configuration.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly what I was wondering. I main Linux since 2019. A buddy of mine sent me a unity demo game that he made ( basically a hello world ). I just did wine hello-world.exe and it ran just fine ( auto downloaded .net runtimes and everything ).

I don't expect everything to run flawlessly, but wine has come a long way. Especially with valve support and investment into proton for gaming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

When you're working on enterprise level stuff, it can be difficult to run any software that you want. There are layers upon layers of accountability that are needed for legal purposes.