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Or you just use something like bottles
Ahahaha. I've tried them all, bare bones wine, bottles even the payed version of crossover and the thing is that they're all a fucking joke. Don't be delusional you know as well as I do those things don't provide a good experience nor a good result.
oh what are you saying? The largely volunteer-developed reimplementation of the entirety of the Windows / WIn32 API is not perfect? If only I had known!!1
Seriously, of course Wine is not perfect, but your dependency issues are largely minimised when using something like Bottles, which manages them for you. And saying that Wine never delivers a result is factually incorrect, even when just looking at compatibility rating for games, not even accounting for other software.
Bottles is not that much better. Crossover (payed) does a much better job but still it's funny to see how ReactOS that is 100% "volunteer-developed and a reimplementation of the entirety of the Windows API" performs much better with older Windows applications. I believe they even share code with Wine.