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  • From their FAQ

    With WinApps you do the bulk of the setup manually, and there’s no cohesive interface to bring it all together. There’s a basic TUI, a taskbar widget, and some CLI commands for you to play with.

    WinBoat does all the setup once you have the pre-requisites installed, displays everything worth seeing in a neat interface for you, and acts like a complete experience. No need to mess with configuration files, no need to memorize a dozen CLI commands, it just works.



  • We have Wine / Proton of course and they can run a lot, but not everything is possible. WinBoat is different. Instead of running compatibility layers, it runs a real copy of Windows using Docker and KVM under the hood. The developer explains it should run basically everything unless “it requires strong GPU acceleration or kernel-level anticheat”. It uses FreeRDP for showing the apps on your Linux desktop, enabling you to interact with them like you would with any other Linux app.

    I don’t want to sound rude, but maybe read the article and not just the headline before asking questions


  • From their FAQ

    With WinApps you do the bulk of the setup manually, and there’s no cohesive interface to bring it all together. There’s a basic TUI, a taskbar widget, and some CLI commands for you to play with.

    WinBoat does all the setup once you have the pre-requisites installed, displays everything worth seeing in a neat interface for you, and acts like a complete experience. No need to mess with configuration files, no need to memorize a dozen CLI commands, it just works.




















  • For installing games i recommend looking at protondb, it will show you if a game will run/what fixes it needs. Where are you getting your games from? For I steam you should have a good experience with the official client, for Epic/GOG/Amazon I recommend Heroic (though lutris is fine too). If you use a other launcher your experience will be probably be suboptimal.

    Bazzite is based on Fedora Atomic, so you will probably not be interacting with that part of the system at all. The official Bazzite docs are pretty good for general stuff, I also found gardiner bryants guide(s) to be helpful for getting started. If you have questions here is !bazzite@lemmy.world, however it’s not that active so I’d post to a more general linux community aswell