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WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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WinBoat is a popular way to run Windows apps on Linux in a containerized environment that sorts all the configuration for you and a new update sounds great.

An interesting alternative to using the likes of Wine / Proton, to have Windows directly on your device inside Linux with containers. It's all quite clever, especially useful for things that won't run well or at all with Wine. Luckily, I have no need for it but I can see the appeal, far less annoying than dual-booting just for a few select things.

Release v0.9.0 arrived November 23rd with a number of big new features, plus some security improvements and bug fixes.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Windows realised that they hadn't locked in their users enough and hadn't built an ecosystem difficult enough to exit like the ego phone makers. My only hope is that they will fuck that up enough with their AI driven coding practices and agentic OS to drive more people to Linux.