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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.

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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.

Changelog item: "#21855 – Lotus Word Pro 9.8: Windows pull down does not show file names". Reported 2010, closed 2025...

How that didn't get closed for being stale is amazing

Linux is gaining ground on desktops so I expect that an increasing number of developers will make sure their apps run on Wine going forward, either by directly contributing to the project or by making the necessary changes in their own programs. I think so far it’s mostly gaming that benefited, because of Valve’s contributions, but generic desktop apps should be easier technically speaking.

Are you trying to say that this is The Year of Linux on the Desktop? :)

(I’d love it to be true, it’s just, you know.)

> 2025 is definitely the year of the Linux gaming desktop.

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