Raven runs Windows applications on Linux. You install them with their own installers, the same ones you would use on a PC, and they start: no virtual machine, no winetricks, no DLL overrides.

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[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't post this originally because I forgot what it was called. But what I was thinking of is called "wine-binfmt".

On Arch, I'm pretty sure this is installed automatically with Wine (possibly also on Debian/Ubuntu).

This lets you just open an exe file and have Wine handle it.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

i used to click it and simply set wine to open it on my environment. it started getting manage-y when i needed to configure it for certain apps and not others, and having to manage prefixes and winetricks and such.

wine-binfmt looks like another way to do the same if i'm not mistaken?

[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

wine-binfmt, I think, looks at the file header and if it's an "exe" then open with Wine. So yeah, sounds similar.