Other Windows support app than "Wine"

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Hi there,

I like Zorin so much that I want to get rid of the last two Windows programs not working with Wine.

Is there another Project supporting Windows natively in Ubuntu/Zorin?

Thanks for all hints.

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There would be Bottles.

Another Option would be to find Alternatives to the Programs that run normal on Linux or look if they have a Linux Version.

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CrossOver (paid option) works very well. Bottles (free) works, too.

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Also - @Ponce-De-Leon has a good suggestion about checking to see if applications have a Linux version. GIMP is a good example. I also try to stick with Linux versions of games I can buy from GOG.com (DRM-free). So far, so good.

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Another option is to run Windows as a VM inside Zorin. A local engineering company was reliant on a CNC Lathe program written for Windows XP. He was fed up with Windows continually changing, so he installed Fedora Workstation and ran Windows XP and his CNC Lathe application without any issues. My preferred VM software is virt-manager.

Have requested moderators to move this thread to General Help as it is in the wrong section of the forum. Tutorials & Guides is for what its title infers, not questions or requests for help or guides but for solutions to problems.

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i'm sorry to say that i have tried wine and bottles in the past but it just didn't work
either it's my low spec pc or my low spec brain lol
for me VM i won't even consider cause of my PC specs , so yea
either way i gave up and just ditched anything related windows
now it's Linux ...or nothing
the way it should be , in my humble opinion
:smiley:

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