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Games are great and everything, but I'm still hoping for Visual Studio support. Ever since MS switched to a WPF-style UI (2010 and newer), it's been unusable. Here's the status for VS 2015 as of 1.7.49: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI... .

If I could get this, I could run Linux on all of my work dev machines. But I'm pretty sure the day this works is rather far away. Thankfully, people like Anastasius Focht have been extremely helpful in dealing with related issues.

AFAICT (checked this a few months ago), it's waiting on a few difficult bugs. A good target is getting through the VS 2015 Community installer first, then working on the rest.

Isn't it more realistic to expect that Visual Studio will be made binary-available by Microsoft itself on Linux or even open sourced at some time given the latest Microsoft turnarounds?

I had one issue with the game DayZ Standalone. Apparently, it uses a function which is not implemented by WINE (yet), and because of that, the game cannot start properly.

The game used to work though, so I really can't blame WINE for this.

I just happen to install it. I can't open exe files. Hmm.. weird.