… hi@all, is here someone who tried Winboat ?
Is it worth a try or are the other tools enough (Wine, Steam …) ?
I’ve played with it. It’s…OKAY… most of the limitations I’ve encountered were largely issues with freerdp and not the solution itself. I would absolutely NOT use it with steam, it currently does not support GPU pass-thru. Winboat is essentially a docker container with a flavor of windows running on it, and local volumes mapped to it. It’s good for some apps you just can’t run on Linux, even with WINE, like MS Office suite (outlook). It’s horrible for Adobe products beyond Acrobat (like photoshop, indesign, illustrator).
Is there a specific software you’d like to run?
Edit: also, documentation is severely lacking, but if you like to pick things apart, you can figure out how to customize things outside its limited interface, and appimage updates aren’t great…
Edit 2: I totally lied, apparently they released a package to the AUR: AUR (en) - winboat-bin
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… thanx for the fast answer, no i wanted just to know if this is better as the “normal” use (wine, steam …); at the moment i have no problems under wine or steam, but when, i know to test winboat 
IMO, if it works well with WINE, keep it that way. I would only use Winboat if you have software that just won’t run properly outside a native/virtualized Windows environment.
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I have to use Internet Explorer for 1 old website for work and I’m using winboat to do that. I was unable to get the aur package to install so I’m using the appimage. Not the best solution but it does work.
LOL Talk about a sledgehammer to kill a gnat. Have you tried running IETester with WINE? IETester / Browser Compatibility Check for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 to 11 | My DebugBar
Yes, that was the first thing I tried but the wine IE version did not work, so it was either a VM or winboat.
winboat is better because I have access to my files and clipboard. I’m waiting on my company to finally ditch it, but I have been waiting over a year for that lol
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I’ve been using it because I need Excel. It works mostly fine, but occasionally the mouse clicks will desync. It usually fixes just by minimizing the app and bringing it back to the foreground. The whole thing feels a little bit hacky, but it gets the job done and is being updated with new features regularly.
I would stick to WINE for anything that works. Winboat is a good stopgap for apps that won’t work through WINE, especially those that don’t use much/any GPU. To me it’s better than opening a full blown VM, but worse than WINE.
I’m using the winboat (non bin) package from the AUR.
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Umm…that’s exactly what Winboat is - it’s running a VM, but inside a container instead of a traditional VM. From a resource perspective, it’s nearly identical.
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