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If someone uses wine, would you be so kind to post here for what programs?

Wine would be interesting for Photoshop due to the GIMP CMYK problems. I run Photoshop on Wine many years ago. I just needed it recently and did not get it to work. I had to use a Virtual Machine.

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The Steam Deck uses a Wine-derived library to run Windows games almost perfectly. It’s honestly the best use of Wine I’ve seen, and it’s arguably finally taken the concept of Windows on Linux mainstream.

A related idea: "Win32 (via wine) Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624

You can just view the winedb and get an idea of the applications that are most successfully run and how many people use them (based on report counts):

https://appdb.winehq.org/

Photoshop CS6 supposedly is gold (works, but requires some minor configuration tweaks), so that might be worth trying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) is driving Steam running windows games on Linux

I successfully flashed smartphones through Samsung Odin flash tool which is only released for Windows.

That feels very risky, but I’m glad it worked!

What was the backup plan if something went wrong?

It was my own. I'd have to get it to a repair shop.

From what I remember of using Odin a decade ago.. it doesn't actually 'flash' the device, it copies the binary blobs to the bootloader partition and tells the device to flash itself from them, then reboots the device. So it should be relatively safe under wine, it'll either work, or it won't.

I've used many times for small programs and such, even though I don't use any wine program on a regular basis. However, I do play games on Proton all the time and everything mostly just works.

PDF-XChange Editor[1] is a very good PDF viewer and annotator. Unfortunately, no Linux equivalent comes close, IMHO. Fortunately, it runs very well on Wine[2].

[1] https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

[2] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

My experince: 15 years ago (on 32 bit x86 linux) it run most of the windows programs fine (office, age of empires, photoshop). 1 year ago: installed on a x86_64 linux, will not run x86 32 bit windows programs wuthout 32 linux libraries. On x86 linux with 32bit programs it will need additional programs from Microsoft (msvc runtime ?) to be able to run some program (total commander ?). I just gave up.

Wine is a translation layer.

If you are running 64 bit Linux, then unfortunately you will need to install 32 bit Linux libs to run 32 bit Windows software, but normally that's pretty straightforward.

Personally, I run WinBox on Mac and Linux to manage my Mikrotik router at home, either locally or through Wireguard

IDA Pro Free version (5.x). I use it because I'm more familiar with it than Ghidra.

I ran the software my bank provides for trading for a while. Mostly just for the graphs.

Intangi Iris, a 32 bit Windows only quoting tool written in the XP era.

MS Word, for Outline Mode alone.

I prefer Word 2003 or failing that Word 97, which is the oldest, smallest, fastest version that handles the same file formats used everywhere until MS invented its compressed-XML nonsense.

Word '03 started working around WINE 8 or so. Before that, I had to use Crossover for it.

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