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CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers To Work On Wine & Valve's Proton (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

What's the technical diffence between CrossOver and just running Wine/Proton?

If there's none, doesn't it make more sense to support Wine directly?

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

CrossOver am pretty sure was designed to be easy and way more compatible to run Windows apps/games.

[–] Fashim@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think CrossOver is designed to have better compatibility with specific programs (MS office, adobe programs etc)

Crossover is a for profit organisation + software but their contributions to wine are open sourced/pushed upstream to the wine repo

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

I see, thanks!

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You’re paying for someone to yell at when an update breaks your workflow, and they have to fix it instead of you.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

I see the point! Thanks