So... What make it's different from PlayOnLinux or Bottles or Winetricks ?

And so cometh the foretold LSW (Linux Subsystem for Windows)

Well will it run Winamp because I inadvertently read the title as Winamp and now I need it again

What about graphics acceleration? Does it need gpu pass through?

Wait, Docker and Podman can create Windows VMs?

I had winapps setup using QEMU quite a while ago but this seems like a much tidier setup.

Anyone try this yet? Office and adobe on Linux easily working on Linux would be big.

What's the difference of this and WINE?

Additional Features

• The GNU/Linux /home directory is accessible within Windows via the \\tsclient\home mount

Well I for one won't be touching this with a ten foot pole.

If that works with silly mobile games as well, maybe I can get my mom on Linux

Yah, I dinked with this for far too long on several docker-based windows installs I have around the network including localhost on a non-standard port. Fails to set up and gives no messages to follow up when it does. I can connect to them fine with a normal xfreerdp command.

2/7

This is (like) virtualbox running in seamless mode...

Does anyone know if it can run Visual Studio? Would be awesome so i could switch to Linux for my Job

Paint.net' child window always got mess up and float across the screen towards the left side

Nice I am going to give it a try. Thank you for sharing

I don't ever mean to be a downer but I feel this will hurt users in the long run. Just simy extending an umbilicle to Microsoft's teat because they can't be assed to let go and stop suckling. M$O and Adobe CC are some of the worst offenders for SaaS bullshittery.

sure you can but why would you want to

I used to use this, but I always found it really janky - window boundaries not updating, weird graphical glitches, etcetera.

It was especially annoying to use with Photoshop and GPU acceleration (I do GPU passthrough to my VM).

In the end, I just abandoned it and just used the monitor the VM’s GPU is plugged into.

If this can run Clip Studio Paint, I'll take it.

Krita and GIMP lacks too many advance features for comic creation.

What’s actually the best one? I used to use PlayOnLinux and it worked so well. But then it started to have problems and I read it was abandoned.

So, for example, if I wanted to play Guild Wars with multilaunch, what integrator would be smoothest and least complicated?

I feel mislead, none of the apps actually run on Linux.

We should put all this work into rewriting them

I’m gonna test this immediately. Lightroom is one of the only things keeping me from switching fully. Though it seems like it would be easier to accomplish a lot of this by emulating a native Mac system just due to the closeness in philosophy, but I’m no OS dev.

@cm0002 very interesting. Although I use the Foss alternatives, this could be the next step to get people over to Linux.

WinApps works by: Running Windows in a Docker, Podman or libvirt virtual machine.

This seems like an okay solution, but my questions are:

• How much overhead does this add? (Excel and Adobe products can be pretty heavy)
• How much latency does it add? (Will things have good responsiveness, or will it behave like an app through RDP?)
• How good is the hardware passthrough? (Editing video benefits greatly from GPU acceleration, Teams can be tricky about USB mics and cameras)

Does the Solidworks installer know if you do this?