It's amazing how far Wine has come. Proton combines Wine with DVXK and other libraries and allows to play practically any Windows game on Linux with a negligible performance hit. I remember using Proton around 2021 and it already worked fairly well but now the experience is incredibly smooth. 2025 is definitely the year of the Linux gaming desktop.
Has it gotten better at running applications, as opposed to games? That was the big thing that seemed to still be hit or miss last time I looked.
Wine has seen a massive improvement since the introduction of WoW64, and now it apparently supports 16-bit programs too. Many thanks to the Wine devs who made this possible.
People writing emulators are the unsung heroes of tech and art preservation /salute
You're practically begging for it...
Wine Is Not an Emulator!
It obviously is an emulator though (which uses entirely HLE). Notably, Wine doesn't use the acronym anymore (about page prefixes with "originally known as").
Obligatory wine is not an emulator.
But yeah I agree, wine is an awesome emulator, and these people are heroes