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I do not use any windows programs. What do you use wine for?

Just curious.

To pair with a nice meal!

I don't even use it for that

I have to use WINE for some windows applications that have no linux alternative.

The old Windows program Imaging runs well under Wine and is very good and fast at opening 2540 dpi tiff files as well as old fax files. If you have old Windows cardfiles they open in Wine but not in Windows. I haven't gotten around to figuring out how to open my old .mht files as well as IE 6 did.

the Run some older windows software, now that I'm using an Linux System.
:)

there are Alternatives that are avialble these days, and some of them are quite good.
Thus there is less reason to use those oldies, except for my memory, that reads that they were an great idea.

these days, the wine thing is used more for running games, mostly.

Xenu Link Sleuth - for checking websites for broken links on huge (> 10,000 pages) websites. Great for when the 500 link limit makes Screaming Frog not usable on a particular website.

CSS HTML Validator - for cleaning up HTML soup in files created by others in visual web page editors like FrontPage.

IrfanView - a lightweight image editor. I've since become comfortable with Gimp.

Hikvision iVMS-4200 Lite

Any Windows software I want to use that doesn't have a Linux alternative.

Mostly for gaming

I use Wine for a few programs for which
a. there is no alternative solution under Linux
b. that are significantly more convenient than Linux alternatives

I use Bottles for obscure programs only available for Windows.
If I couldn't run them in Linux I would have to keep Win PC just for this two (my hobby related) apps...

I often use Faststone image editor for quick work on digital photos, and Irfanview for printing JPEGs to resize and fit in a page properly.

Geek3579 wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 8:11 am I often use Faststone image editor for quick work on digital photos, and Irfanview for printing JPEGs to resize and fit in a page properly.

You can also directly use XnViewMP. instead (via MXPI). (I used Wine for XnView, Irfanview, mostly before)

I remember Irfanview. It was one of my go-to apps back in the day.

I have quite a bit of Windows audio software on my main systems, mainly old gems that I like to preserve because they can be great in just the right situation :) - but out of those, I don't think any Windows software gets more Linux use here than Tokyo Dawn Records Limiter 6 GE, by far. Anything that I do that gets finalized into a listenable form goes through that one.

I use Wine for a Windows genealogical program ( Ancestral Quest 16 ). These is Gramps software for genealogy in the repositories, but I don't like how it's set up. Ancestral Quest 16 runs absolutely great with wine on MX Linux OS. No problems.

Edit:

I have had success downloading Wine from their website as the repositories in Linux are usually not up to date with the latest version.


Click this link to find which Applications work with Wine and their Windows App status:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... nding=true


Click this link to install latest Wine version and how to do install. I just copied and pasted the commands into a terminal and it installed without a problem: ( These commands actuall work )

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/w ... ian-Ubuntu


Hope this helps.

txm0523 wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 1:48 pm I use Wine for a Windows genealogical program ( Ancestral Quest 16 ). These is Gramps software for genealogy in the repositories, but I don't like how it's set up. Ancestral Quest 16 runs absolutely great with wine on MX Linux OS. No problems....

You can also try, Ancestris (powerful too) into the MX repository , or https://www.ancestris.org/index.html#

@oops Thanks for the tip. I looked at it. Don't like how it's formated though. I prefer Ancestral Quest 16, it's a continuation of PAF 5 ( which was discontinued ) many years ago. I guess once you're used to using a program that's formatted the way you like it, you kinda stick with it. Anyway, I spoke with Support at Ancestral Quest last year and asked if they were going to port it over to Linux OS. Not yet. But I did provide instructions on how to use their software with Wine and Debian based Linux OS. It should be listed in their Forum. Always trying to get MS based apps to port over to Linux OS. That's just me.

txm0523 wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 7:51 pm @oops Thanks for the tip. I looked at it. Don't like how it's formated though. I prefer Ancestral Quest 16, it's a continuation of PAF 5 ( which was discontinued ) many years ago. I guess once you're used to using a program that's formatted the way you like it, you kinda stick with it. Anyway, I spoke with Support at Ancestral Quest last year and asked if they were going to port it over to Linux OS. Not yet. But I did provide instructions on how to use their software with Wine and Debian based Linux OS. It should be listed in their Forum. Always trying to get MS based apps to port over to Linux OS. That's just me.

I'm not familiar with "Ancestral Quest 16," but I've tested several types of software like this on Linux, and once you get the hang of it (it's quite long), Ancestris is very powerful (Java concept). (you can also import others .ged files, and correct some formatting (before or after), with some pluggins) . Personally I prefer staying with gedcom 5.5.1 & utf8. I have tried gedcom-v7.0.xx but I don't like it. (a nice tool too with linux is Jedit for the gedcom files : https://www.jedit.org/)

I use chess software, for example, Chess Base.