https://www.alemasone.com/en/tags/compatibility/Recent content in Compatibility on AlemasoneHugoenSun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://www.alemasone.com/en/install-wine-ubuntu-windows-apps/Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:27:10 +0000https://www.alemasone.com/en/install-wine-ubuntu-windows-apps/<div class="lead !mb-9 text-xl"> <a href="https://www.winehq.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Wine</a> lets you run Windows programs on Ubuntu without installing Windows. Before we start, however, keep in mind that for <strong>games</strong>, there are tools built on top of Wine that handle everything automatically, and many office programs now have web or Linux versions. On its own, Wine remains the right choice for Windows programs that don’t have alternatives—usually management software and niche tools. </div> <p>The name is a play on words: <em>Wine Is <a href="https://www.alemasone.com/en/google-play-games-pc-install-guide/">Not an Emulator</a></em>. It isn’t a virtual machine: Wine translates Windows requests from a program into equivalent Linux requests on the fly. You don’t need a Windows license and programs run at full speed, but it only works well if Wine knows all the functions that specific program uses. The latest stable version is 11, released in January 2026.</p>