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how good or bad is wine (or bottles) now for windows programs?
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There is a crossover between the two, for example the Mass Effect Mod Manager and things like that, which work adequately.
Wine works well for most small GUI applications, the biggest issues are with the huge corporate, commercial programs like MS Office, CAD software and Adobe crapware, for which there are ways to get them to work, but you'd be better of migrating to a native alternative.
C# apps are always a pain though. Mono is rarely enough and as soon as you need MS dotnet libraries, everything is going to be a lot more painful.
OT: At my previous job I ran a Windows-exclusive compiler toolchain (Keil C51) with wine in a Makefile, which was a huge improvement to developer workflow compared to everyone having to use the bundled IDE, especially due to the parallel builds. Wine is awesome.