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I wish SolidWorks was included in that.

I wish, but Wine is not a kernel. My one use case for Windows is my Fujitsu scan snap, because the SW is better than the Linux scanning SW which is rather basic. But it seems like wine will never support it because it can't run device drivers.

This use case seems like it’d be taken care of pretty well by a VM running the requisite version of Windows, since VMs have USB passthrough. Years ago when Windows-only peripherals were more common I did this on my macs.

Yes, I used to have a VM of Windows, at one point they were trying to attract devs and sold a VM licence for $25. But it stopped working when I changed computers (I think that was outside the terms) and now a legitimate VM licence is much more unless you go for a dodgy OEM key.

Coincidentally I just tried again today and the scanning story on Ubuntu has improved a bit . Setup is still a bitch but once it's there it's almost as productive as scanning on windows.

Hey I thought exactly that 15 years ago when wine got a major update. I never looked back :)

Another one that has missed on OS/2.