this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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I find that people spend more time writing about how linux is unstable and there's no software for it then they would if they just googled what software they need and just installed the software that does the thing that they want that linux already has available in almost every distribution...
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Watch me run that in vanilla wine the SAME WAY
except when you need to manually install some msvc dependencies, make sure it's compatible with other software you have and ...
MSVC redistributable dependencies are also a problem on Windows. If you try to run an app built with a version of the MSVC runtime that's not installed on Windows, you'll get an error telling you to install it. Microsoft doesn't ship all possible versions of that with Windows, so users are on the hook to install it themselves (if it's a big publisher though, they'll typically include it as part of a installation wizard, and Steam handles it automatically behind the scenes).
Not sure what you mean by this, as wine software is contained within a wine prefix. If you have dependency conflicts within a wine prefix, you can just create a separate one. Apps like Lutris make this easy to do via a GUI, and they even have community sourced installer scripts for well-known software that automates installing dependencies (like MSVC, fonts, or other bullshit you'd normally have to get through something like wine-tricks).