And so cometh the foretold LSW (Linux Subsystem for Windows)
And with it, the infinitely recursive wsllswwsllswwsllsw…
It’s subsystems all the way down
Always has been
So… What make it’s different from PlayOnLinux or Bottles or Winetricks ?
They can’t run Adobe. This runs a full VM constantly in the background that you can pop up when you want to use the Windows desktop to install things etc. It’s a completely different set up. It can also run ArcGIS Pro, which the other methods can’t.
So this can run latest MS OFFICE and Adobe Suite you say ??
It can even run pirated versions, don’t ask me how I know! 🏴☠️
That’s even better !!!
yar har har
Why would you want that though…
Well it’s not my own choice, my office has standards.
How different is it, then, functionality-wise, from VirtualBox or VMWare?
None, you’re essentially putting that in the background without a display. I think the app works by tunneling the windows app into a little display window… I assume. I think it has to be a trick with displays, when I consider what I know by breaking mine a lot. :') Someone smarter than me on ths can correct me.
Unlike the Wine based stuff (Bottles, Winetricks), this runs actual Windows as a VM. So compatibility will be far better though performance will be worse.
Well will it run Winamp because I inadvertently read the title as Winamp and now I need it again
Audacious is your friend. It accepts old Winamp skins!
I’ve been rocking the Windows XP skin on Linux Mint
It really whips the llama’s ass!
*ehc ehc ehc ehceeh
Yes, but there is a Winamp Wine based package somewhere iirc.
Will this work with music producing software like Ableton or will it introduce too much latency?
You’d just have normal Windows latency + pipewire latency.
Pipewire can adjust for latency on the source, so if you’re running a monitor of an instrument directly on Linux it won’t be out of sync.
You may need to edit a config file or two once you know exactly how much latency comes from Windows/the vm software.
It should be ok, I think. I am running ArcGIS which is pretty resource heavy and it works just fine.
If that works with silly mobile games as well, maybe I can get my mom on Linux
Waydroid for that.
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.
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docker based windows install ? How ? windows in qemu in docker ?
office in wine in docker and somehow exporting display to wayland ?
How does that work ?I’ve been using the same windows/dockur setup for a couple years that they outline in the Winapp docs. It uses KVM via a docker cap you give it permission for in the docker compose.
It should work with this Winapp thing, but I haven’t gotten much success so far trying to connect it. I’ve just been RDPing into them but I’d have liked to just pull the relevant windows alone, more like Terminal Service Applications.
Thanks ! I’ve never heard of that one
I had investigated distrobuilder in repack-windows mode
This sounds like a similar version of that with docker instead of lxc ?I’m really curious to find some way to have just an application being streamed from one of those, instead of a whole desktop. Like just the application window, resizable like a regular window and using the decorations of the receiving OS
The config files need to be just right for this to work. It took a little fiddling at first but it works on Kubuntu 25.04 for the last few months.
Paint.net’ child window always got mess up and float across the screen towards the left side
Does anyone know if it can run Visual Studio? Would be awesome so i could switch to Linux for my Job
Probably!
This is (like) virtualbox running in seamless mode…
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?
Speaking from my egregious amount of hours in GW1&2 back in the day, you should just launch it through steam with Proton. Check people’s settings here: https://www.protondb.com/app/1284210 There is likely a Lutris prefab as well.
Yeah I don’t play it on Steam, I use the old launcher because I run multilaunch. I was playing it back in ‘06 and am stuck in my ways.
I’ll take a look in Lutris, though, thanks.
I ran the old launcher through steam. It looks like, according to that link, that you can trigger the old launcher screen through execution commands now too.
I’m just gonna run it solo either with multilaunch, or I’ll do separate vm instances for the different game instances. I don’t need Steam for anything as of yet.
Thanks for the info about the front-ends.
I feel mislead, none of the apps actually run on Linux.
