Winepak: installing Windows apps on Linux

[KBD]

You guys hear anything about how well this works, or not?
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/in ... ot-easier/

[Stevo]

I hope it won't be hundreds of MB for a simple text editor like Flatpaks are.

[KBD]

I hope it won't be hundreds of MB for a simple text editor like Flatpaks are.

It is surprising how big Flatpacks are, which is why I generally don't use them. But I do hope Winepak brings more people to Linux and actually works as promised.

[thomasl]

From what I've taken from the article this seems to pack a complete .wine install with the app in question into a flatpak. Yuck.

Nothing against wine though... I have to say that I am amazed as to how well most of the Windows applications I've tested work. I was tempted to go with VirtualBox and a Windows VM but so far I've either found a Linux replacement or the app in questions run well enough under wine. And it's quite efficient apart from the initial startup. Which may well turn out to be a problem for winepaks if every pak carries its own .wine/ directory because then these can't be cached.