Wine 9.1 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

I first installed debian potato 20+ years ago. Had a few friends willing to play StarCraft. With a little effort, I got it working with Wine.

It feels like Wine was always there to save the day. What an absolute legend of a project.

While I like the idea of Wine, I still find that running "real" Windows as a VirtualBox guest under a Linux host is what works for me.

I've tried WABI, Wine and ReactOS over the years, but those never seem to 'just work'.

My test-bed 'de rigeur' is HP's Scanner and Printer Software. Works wonderfully in 'Windows on VirtualBox', but fails miserably with those others.

I would love to use wine to run multiplayer games on linux, but nowadays all of them seem to have a kernel level anticheat :/

Also, with Wine you can you Windows applications on Windows. Sounds insane, but there are use cases, for old programs for which Windows itself offers no compatibility.