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Wine in 2023 still unable to properly run software from 1999. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by TCB13@lemmy.world to c/winelinux@lemmy.world

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Here is what I don't get about Wine. Even in 2023 it seems to fail to handle basic Windows software written in 1996-1995 like the classic convert.exe (https://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/). This program and others run flawless in ReactOS for instance, why not under Wine?

Another things I don't get include:

Why is Wine is still stuck on that Windows 98 style GUI instead of a more modern thing;
Flickering;
How can ReactOS, that shares code with Wine, run everything way more smoothly?

For reference I'm using Debian 12, Wine 8.0. Also tried with Soda 7.0, same results.

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[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I mean can you do it better? The wine project is so incredible and let's us play mostwindowws games on Linux thought proton andyou're just dunking on it because a random app that nobody uses doesn't work shame on you

[–] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From the website you linked:

Convert runs quite well on Linux and UNIX using Wine. If you do this, you may need to change the tab layout to use a single row by going into Options > Preferences > Tabs, and clear the Multiple Lines option.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, yes it does, but that's a workaround due to the fact that Wine doesn't seem to support tabs in multiple rows, I've noticed this glitch with other applications as well.