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WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more
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this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2025
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UWP is Microsoft's "new" app format, it's what the windows store and the xbox use.
It also isn't compatable with wine, and my pet theory is that this was the entire point of it. Combined with Windows S mode, which doesn't let you install apps other than from the windows store, the goal was to lock down the windows ecosystem by having apps that can't be made to run on linux.
I remember seeing a compatability layer for UWP apps a while ago, and I am pleased to see that it has come this far. Great work!
Edit: wait this uses a windows VM. Still good though and lets people escape the windows ecosystem.
Windows realised that they hadn't locked in their users enough and hadn't built an ecosystem difficult enough to exit like the ego phone makers. My only hope is that they will fuck that up enough with their AI driven coding practices and agentic OS to drive more people to Linux.