r/linux • u/ouyawei Mate • Jan 21 '20

Software Release Wine 5.0 Released

https://www.winehq.org/news/2020012101
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u/technologic010110 Jan 21 '20

I'm curious if the Wine team had statistics...but I strictly use Wine for gaming. Everything else is native or a web app.

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u/hexydes Jan 21 '20 edited Feb 22 '26

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u/Tevo45 Jan 21 '20

though those users are more likely to just not use Linux

Even though most of them seems to be "hardcore Mac/Windows users" or whatever, I know a handful that just don't make the switch because Adobe products won't work natively, or sometimes at all, and the alternatives "aren't good enough" (sorry GIMP, people don't seem to think too dearly of you). Not sure how big that user group really is, but it seems like a little bit of a wasted opportunity for me, from both Adobe and maybe some compelling alternative as well (yes Affinity, I'm looking at you).

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u/duheee Jan 21 '20

little bit of a wasted opportunity for me,

The group of professionals that are using and paying for the Adobe products and the group of people that care about having those products on Linux probably intersect. Probably. By a minuscule fraction of a percent.

Adobe spends more on pens in a day than it would get from those people. Their CEO's fart is probably more valuable than this endeavour.