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How well do those work? Is it seamless or do I need to spend hours fiddling with it to get a program to work?
Depends on the program. But, for 90% of them it is just: "wine programname.exe" in terminal and it just works. If it is an installer, it will be in your start menu like normal and you can just open in from there after. For the other 10%, I lookup the error online and it will need you to add a component via winetricks.
There is a contingent that just won't work. For those, it's easier to just find an alternative.
As a rule, I use a Linux native program first. Then fall back on a Windows program if I can't find what I want. Many programs build for both now. Things like OBS, LibreOffice, Firefox, Chrome, Discord, Dropbox, Steam are the same in Windows and Linux, just install and use it as they are built for both OSes.