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I believe it started with Cedega, but I could be wrong. That's where I first recall encountering it.
A few years ago I purchased a few shrink-wrapped Office on ebay for each of the versions Wine claimed to support best, tested then with wine32 and wine64, and concluded the "sweet spot" was Office 2010 in wine32 (it may have changed, as wine keep evolving)
Yes, it's 15 years old software, but it works flawlessly with Unicode xkb symbols! Since it doesn't have any network access, and each app is isolated in a different user id, I don't think it can cause any problem.
And Ii I can still use vim to do everything I need and take advantage of how it will not surprise me with any unwanted changes, I don't see why I couldn't use say an old version of Excel in the same way!
Maybe not much?
A few months ago, I ran out of power (my mistake, I use full screen apps to avoid the distraction, so I didn't realize I was unplugged)
After plugging in and restarting Linux then the ancient version of Word I was using, I got a pleasant surprise: the "autosaved" version of the document I was editing, with nothing lost!
As for llm, Excel 2010 may not have been made for AI, but wine copy/paste and a few scripts work surprisingly well!
Word is similar.
Features from later versions will either not show up or show up as boxes
Back then, Word's auto-save updated the file that you were working on rather than creating a separate backup file. I liked that better, though there might have been a good reason for changing approaches in later versions of Word.
I always liked this idea; but wouldn't you run into issues with file permissions? And if not, wouldn't that mean that the program in question would have access to all your files anyhow, removing the benefit of isolation?
I use scripts to automate everything - including allowing wine to use Xwayland (because until I start the application I want, its userid is not allowed to show content on my display)
If you want to try using wine with different user ids, try to start with a directory in /tmp like /tmp/wine which is group writable, with your windows app and your user belonging to the same group.