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CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers To Work On Wine & Valve's Proton (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

What's the technical diffence between CrossOver and just running Wine/Proton?

If there's none, doesn't it make more sense to support Wine directly?

[–] Fashim 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think CrossOver is designed to have better compatibility with specific programs (MS office, adobe programs etc)

Crossover is a for profit organisation + software but their contributions to wine are open sourced/pushed upstream to the wine repo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I see, thanks!

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