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how good or bad is wine (or bottles) now for windows programs?
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Most stuff that runs on Windows is uninteresting because there are superior free alternatives on Linux, but in the cases where I needed it, Bottles is great.
I'm not sure what people are referring to in other comments when they say Bottles has "jank", but for me it works very nicely for the few apps I occasionally need to use it for: Daz3D (just worked), jDownloader (just worked), and Affinity (followed this guide and it worked easily).