Wine Is Not an Emulator. The meaning of the legendary acronym of the tool par excellence that since the beginning of the times in which someone wanted to run programs created for Windows within their distro , is used by a large number of users to bring to the Linux desktop those apps that do not Have an equivalent and they only exist for the Microsoft system.
If you are one of those people interested in Wine and its benefits, or simply running Windows apps within Linux or Mac without too much complications, you probably have heard of CrossOver. This program is one of the best reputation to fulfill that purpose and also uses the Wine code.
CrossOver 16 is the newest version of the oven. Adds the long-awaited s support for 64-bit applications and works on both Linux and MacOS. CrossOver uses part of the Wine 2.0 code, in fact the developers of this tool contribute actively to the development of Wine, and pay to host their website. If you decide to pay for CrossOver you can have the satisfaction that you are contributing to the development of Wine.
CrossOver is not a free application, but it has a trial period for you to decide whether it is worth paying for it or not. It will all depend on how interested you are in running as stress-free as possible, from programs like Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, or a lot of games that simply have not arrived and probably do not come to Steam for Linux.
In addition to running on Linux and MacOS, CrossOver is also in the preliminary version for Android . With this program you can run applications for Windows on Chromebook laptops with Intel processors, or tablets with Android.
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