Difference with Wine? #139
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Hello team, I was wondering about the difference between WinBoat vs Wine? Also, looking at https://github.com/TibixDev/winboat#inspiration--alternatives :
It seems WinBoat is wrapper around https://github.com/dockur/windows, is that right? |
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Winboat uses a full version of windows so apps work how they should. There are some limitations for games due to GPU passthrough and RDP frame refresh rate etc but for general app work, Photoshop etc. It's decent. |
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Wine does not have USB support. Winboat does. |
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In almost all case, if an app works with wine, use wine, mostly because there's less overhead (it's faster) and there's Vulcan, OpenGL and DirectX support (that said, OpenGL is in the work for winboat). Winboat is more so an option, when an app doesn't work with wine (e.g. Microsoft Office), so it's kinda a backup option, or if you wanna use the window desktop. But yeah! |
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In almost all case, if an app works with wine, use wine, mostly because there's less overhead (it's faster) and there's Vulcan, OpenGL and DirectX support (that said, OpenGL is in the work for winboat). Winboat is more so an option, when an app doesn't work with wine (e.g. Microsoft Office), so it's kinda a backup option, or if you wanna use the window desktop. But yeah!
*also, I'm not too sure, but USB should work with wine
*and yes, winboat is a gui wrapper around the window docker image