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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Bottles.

There's a flatpak called Bottles that does a pretty decent job of setting up a containerized Windows /WINE environment, if you have some program or game you can't get to work quite right by chucking it into Lutris or Steam.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

But I can't be bothered to play windows games

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago

I mostly use it for dev tools that only barely technically support linux, or just don't at all.

That and uh... lets call them homebrew game decompression executables.

... yeah... yep.