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.
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.
I use eg ShareX and Irfanview, only two examples of a lot of apps for Windows only, superior to anything from Linux alternatives, for Gamers (despite there are changings in last years) there are also only an limited catalogue for Linux in comparision (even worse in Mac), same also in the case of official and professional apps. Windows has the biggest catalogue of software of all other OS (even FOSS), don’t confuse it. The strong and advantage of Linux is other, but not respect the list of high quality soft. This in the future may change, but currently Windows is the, by far most used OS and because of this, also the most devs of soft for it. So an good working Windows emulator for Linux isn’t a bad idea and for sure usefull for a lot of users.
I don’t think either Sharex or Irfanview are superior to the alternatives. What is one thing that you can do with Irfanview that I can’t do elsewhere? I am familiar with the program, its ok for what it is.
You need several different apps to do the same as Irfanview. Yes, there are several image viewer for Linux, also multimedia viewer, image editors, batch converters, etc., but not all in one like Irfanview. Same for ShareX, there is no other with editor, screenshot, screencast, OCR, of any type of files, uploader customizable and more. The nearest alternative is Greenshot, but also not for Linux, only for Windows and Mac. It is a fact, most soft for Linux exist also for Windows, not the other way arround.
Why would I want an all in one? Wouldn’t I want ones that are the best at what they do, but can hand off functionality to other programs if they excel at it? I just don’t find the case for it compelling at all. From any viewer in linux I can launch others applications or have complex workflows.
As for ShareX: Spectacle (default in KDE) covers the capture end (snips, ocr, edit, etc), and then of course uploading is simple enough with various tools. Automation is easy.
Although I gotta give ShareX some love. I used to use it at work, it was great at the time. Being open source made it even better.