Have you installed wine?

[mshmm]

Several times over the years. My current Wine installation is in a Xubuntu 20.04 virtual machine.

Bottoms up

[mikeflan]

We will assume that PlayOnLinux installation counts as a Wine installation.

[Pierre]

YEP - - the Commercial Version, actually.

it works well on the few programs, that I'm interested in.
https://www.codeweavers.com/
some others have found that the Play on Linux works well,
https://playonlinux.com/
for their windows programs, as well.

[Moonstone Man]

Apart from needing a VirtualBox VM to update my car GPS maps, I am 100% Windows free. I can't ever imagine tainting and blemishing my beautiful Linux with such a horribly destructive plague.

[absque fenestris]

After years of resistance - Yes.

The trigger was a very small Sony camera with a Zeiss lens. The thing actually takes very good photos, but without editing they are veiled and kind of dull.
GIMP or Photoshop will fix that, but very cumbersome.
Faststone - my all-time favorite under Windows - does this with a single light-to-shadow slider and adding a bit of contrast, as if it were specially designed for this camera. And is otherwise just damn clever.
With ShiftN by Markus Hebel (thanks) - you can easily correct perspective distortions. The program is just good. I've also used it with WineBottler on Mac OSX.

And now I just use these applications under Linux - Play On Linux is responsible for the installation.

Unfortunately, the developers of these programs don't have any kind of sensors for Linux ...

[MartyMint]

Have you tried darktable?

[GS3]

In the last few days I have installed two new LM20.1 and Wine is one of the first things I installed and it went without any problem.

Yesterday evening I installed a third LM20.1 and today I installed WINE and it went OK but I cannot get Wine to install Irfanview which went smoothly in the two previous cases. Go figure. (ETA.: A cup of coffee and waking up did the trick. PWBKAC)

[absque fenestris]

Have you tried darktable?

Darktable is certainly a good application, but on my laptop with a 13.9" monitor ...

[BenTrabetere]

I installed Wine and PlayOnLinux when I first moved to Linux, but I have been Windows Free for nearly three years. I do have a broken Win7 vm and a dual-boot system with Win10 and CentOS, but I hardly ever use them. The last time I booted to Windows was to open a PDF that would only open with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

[BenTrabetere]

Have you tried darktable?

Darktable is certainly a good application, but on my laptop with a 13.9" monitor ...

Have you tried running it in Full Screen mode? Launch darktable and then press F11.

[absque fenestris]

Much better ... Thanks!

[Pjotr]

No way I'll ever install Wine (or its siblings like PlayOnLinux) again, because it's a big security risk:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/wine.html

[ZakGordon]

There is a reason i still use Windows (7).

Linux is for 'security' (so anything that goes online). Windows is for games (and photoshop/other specific windows only things). So that would be a 'no' from me.

[BenTrabetere]

Much better ... Thanks!

You should be able regain even more space by removing the Top panel by pressing Ctrl+Shift+t or clicking the triangle in the middle of the top edge of the window. You can also remove the Bottom and Filmstrip/Timeline Panels by pressing Ctrl+Shift+b or clicking its triangle.

[antikythera]

I'm using PlayOnLinux to play some old Windows XP era games that will not run with hardware acceleration on Windows 7 or above any longer. It's to do with GPU driver changes and affects both integrated and discrete GPU from all brands. There are modified versions of the game executables on github that some fan of the games made themselves but I'd rather not go down that route. I'd rather use the genuine article off optical media.

[DPM]

I use Wine, but I have restricted its access rights. No Z drive with access to the / path, no desktop integration, no access to any home direcory files (e.g. music, documents) outside the Wine directory, no access to removable media such as USB sticks, no network or internet access. Transferring data to and from Wine works by copying stuff into and from the Wine directory.

[MartyMint]

Wine is pretty locked down out-of-the-box...he have to go out of your way to give executables write access where they're not supposed to.
It's not going to do anything "under your nose". I've never had anything "blow up" in 18 years of running Wine applications.

[Drugwash]

If Wine didn't exist I'd probably still be tweaking the heck out of my old Win98SE, or at most a WinXP on steroids if there is any (beyond the unofficial SP4 that I already had installed on that machine) instead of fighting with Mint (and all other distros tested in VBox).

Thing is, apart from a few third-party applications that from several points of view have no match whatsoever in the Linux world (that I could find yet), there are my own "toys" that I had written years ago precisely because there were none even in the Windows world. So the easiest path was to use what I had already worked on, and what I already was accustomed with (FastStone Image Viewer has already been mentioned above) when repeated searches came up empty handed or with lame - or overcomplicated and unintuitive - results.

[kelevra]

Yes, I have it installed on both my Mint systems. I use it to play retro games like FullTilt Pinball and The Incredible Machine.

[Portreve]

While I don't have it installed at the moment, I have in the past whenever I've wanted to install a really old-school game, in particular Diablo or Diablo II.

Honestly, if I needed a commercial program again for some reason, it would almost certainly be a Mac OS X- environment app, not a Windows one, so except for Diablo, Wine is mostly useless.