If you need to run Windows apps on Linux, Winboat is inching ever-closer to full release and will make your life considerably easier.
  • andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8 months

    That’s pretty cool! Does anyone know if this allows one to play anti-cheat enabled games? Would be interesting to know if we can spoof HWID stuff with this to make it look like we’re playing on an actual Windows device.

    • Hetare King@piefed.socialEnglish
      8 months

      According to the website, it does not. But it also doesn’t support GPU passthrough yet, so it’s not yet really an option for most games anyway.

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
      8 months

      seems like it’s just windows running in a docker container, with some linux integrations

    • priapus@piefed.socialEnglish
      8 months

      Unfortunately, theres a LOT of ways for software to detect its running in a VM. Depending on the method used, it can be practically impossible to hide. Even if spoofing methods improve, anticheats will improve their detection methods in response.

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8 months

      More streamlined installer, less/no command line in favor of GUI. Comes as an appimage but requires some packages to be installed on the host.

  • meekah@gehirneimer.de
    8 months

    does this finally let me run proprietary windows software to configure my mouse firmware?

    • sga@piefed.socialEnglish
      8 months

      i guess the answer is yes, if your mouse stores the changes in mouse itself. essentially they are running windows in a vm, and store changes in mouse, and that works even after you closed the vm

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 months

    Looks like yet another dockur windows fork. More polished than most, I’d say.