I tried as well, but most of the apps crashed sooner or later. And installing all these i386 rubbish is annoying.
OK, you got me.
I’ve occasionally used Wine - with mixed success…
I got Microsoft’s Age of Empires II to run via Wine… It mostly worked okay… **
And I also got Autodesk’s SketchBook Pro for Windows running in Wine… That just seemed to just “work” - install it through Wine and run it through Wine… No mussing… AoE II was a different story - all sorts of stuff it needed, like “dot.net” and DirectX… Interesting side fact : SketchBook Pro was an “Alias” product, owned by Silicon Graphics, along with Alias Wavefront (now “Maya”) - and SketchBook was available on SGI IRIX (mip64 UNIX) and MS Windows!
I have a whole bunch of Vector Art that I’ve created over the last 35-ish years… Mostly in CorelDraw’s proprietary file format… So I tried to get CorelDraw to run in Wine - yeah - nah! All too hard and I gave up… I did eventually get my head around InkScape - but - there’s still some CDR (CorelDraw vector) files I’d like to open… There are converters and stuff - but - they don’t play well - CDR supports multipage - none of the conversion tools I found worked well (and nearly all my CDR files were multipage)… Multipage was a feature I sorely missed while using InkScape - but - then “HEY PRESTO!” about 2-3 years ago InkScape 1.2 comes out with : you guessed it! MULTIPAGE DOCUMENTS!
And InkScape file format is OPEN SOURCE SVG… One thing I LOVE about SVG is it’s really just a text file… and if you’ve got strings of text in there - you can tweak them with the vast array of UNIX and OSS text tools for CLI - like sed and awk! I really should Patreon them some money - as I use InkScape all the time…
What annoys me about how hard it is to get CorelDraw to work in Linux - Corel themselves tried to be a Linux vendor and there was once “Corel Linux” - and competitor with Microsoft - they had Wordperfect, and Borland’s Quadro Pro spreadsheet - AND - they tried to sell CorelPaint (not the same product as CorelDraw!) as native Linux product - but - guess what? IT was just the Windows version with some Wine wrappers/instalers/scripting around it!
** I don’t need to do that anymore - I bought Microsoft Age of Empires II HD Edition via Steam and SteamPlay does ALL of the stuff behind the scenes (e.g. Dot.Net, DirectX blah blah)…
The east bank of the Rhine, which has usually been the boundary between Francophone, and Germanic languages for 2000 years (since Augustus lost his 9th legion in the Teutoberg forest) has been famous for white wines for hundreds of years : reisling is a German wine…
Actually, Oregon, Washington, and California are walking off with gold medals in many worldwide competitions. France is down the list now, following Australia and New Zealand.
Gives me a headache but not sure why. Research suggests it’s to do with Histamines in the production.
I run several windows apps for web site work using wine. (Dreamweaver mainly) but have had office working only issue occasionally a screen looks odd but refresh sorts it.
I’m fully with you here. Not to forget the ability of reasonable file versioning.
Our greatest export ever was AC/DC… (NOT: Alternating vs Direct Current! that was either, or both, Edison and Tesla - I think Edison electrocuted an innocent elephant to death prove his theory - I could be wrong - but killing an elephant? That’s ALWAYS WRONG!)…
So some purists will state that Bon Scott, and the Young brothers were both Scottish born…
Yeah - the Young brothers (their older brother George formed the Easybeats with a fellow Dutch “immigrant” - Australia’s first foray into international music along with a Yorkshire born pommie Stevie Wright) are technically Scottish - as was Bon Scott (obvious!).
Also - Australians call English people pommies - my wife is one (and her ancestry is Yorkshire - like @callpaul.eu - which makes her 100% correct in any argument - even when she’s clearly wrong!) - it’s rhyming slang for “pommegranate” : yeah - it doesn’t quite rhyme : immig-grant VS pommie-granate - but close enough…
And none of the founding fathers of AC/DC - arguably the greatest rock’n’roll band of all time were even f–king pommies - and - Scotland fought like 1000 years of wars to tell the English they were better anyway… The Scots are not pommie bastards 
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And Bon Scott grew up in West Australia - and was incarcerated in juvenile incarceration centres here…
Bon Scott would have been 80 last Thursday… I caught a tribute band on Friday night playing Bon Scott AC/DC songs… still coming down off it…
How bizarre! I still call post-“:Bon Scott” AC/DC “new AC/DC” - but Back In Black with Brian Johnson singing came out 46 years ago! Brian Johnson is technically a Pommie - but - are Geordies technically English? @callpaul.eu ? And it’s harder to understand a Geordie in full flight than a Scotsman or an Irishman or even a Scouser! Surely the hardest accent to understand in regional UK is the Geordie/Jordie - WTF? Is that even English?
Apologies in advance for derailing this thread - but it was some pommie expat who lives in France who started derailing it…
Mine was a serious derail. Not going to mention kylie or sir les Patterson as auz exports.
Dont be concerned. Derailments never worry me. They are sometimes the best part of a dry topic.