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Top 23 Wine Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-13
I think the actual answer you are looking for is this paragraph:
> These old workarounds got subtle edge cases wrong in ways that produced occasional hitches, deadlocks, or weird behavior in specific games, which are bugs that don't show up on benchmark charts but can absolutely ruin individual experiences. NTSYNC fixes those at the source by matching Windows behavior exactly, and that means as soon as your favorite distro moves to the new kernel version, whether it be Bazzite, CachyOS, Fedora, or a flavor of Ubuntu, they all get this much-needed fix.
That's the crux of the article. NTSYNC isn't faster, it's more "correct". Most games are around the same level of performance, with certain outliers both ways. Right now there isn't anything performance wise that Linux has to do that would impact all games. Just tweaks and additions to the different layers [1][2][3] in the same way driver vendors do. Much of the poor performance is for API violations and other shenanigans.
1: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/uti...
2: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/blob/master/src/util/confi...
3: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/blob/maste...
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winapps
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/
Project mention: Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-24What percentage of MS Office user can, in your estimation, complete the steps as described in this readme?
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
I'd estimate <1%
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Project mention: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-11
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Project mention: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-11
I love how windows-linux discussion is populated by DAW/VST incompatibility. I'm still new to the industry, and therefore also open minded about daw/plugins.
I actually had good experience with setting up yabridge, it could have worked for me I think. But the elephant in the room is that many big commercial plugins use JUCE as a framework, and the recent release of JUCE (JUCE8) just broke compatibility with wine and seem to be sabotaging wine-based usage completely, and are not considering going back at the moment.
https://forum.juce.com/t/juce8-direct2d-wine-yabridge/64298/...
https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/issues/386
There are patches based on binary diffs to JUCE7, but it is just so much pain to simply run the commonest plugins in the field :/
So I'm now kind of stuck between using windows with commercial plugins or use linux with mainly smaller scale alternatives (although there are good ones: lsp, decent sampler, cardinal, surge)
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Steam-Deck-Guide
Steam Deck Guide. Learn all about the Tools, Accessories, Games, Emulators, and Gaming Tips that will make your Steam Deck an awesome Gaming Handheld or a Portable Computer Workstation.
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Apple-Silicon-Guide
Apple Silicon Guide. Learn all about the A17 Pro, A16 Bionic, R1, M1-series, M2-series, and M3-series chips. Along with all the Devices, Operating Systems, Tools, Gaming, and Software that Apple Silicon powers.
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We encode with Vulkan Video, then stream to the client using QUIC. This is part of the larger project: Nestri [1] which is currently a work-in-progress.
[1] https://github.com/nestrilabs/nestri
Nesbox is just a VMM, a component of the whole stack.
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docker-wine
Docker image that includes Wine and Winetricks for running Windows applications on Linux and macOS
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Mythic
An open-source macOS game launcher with the ability to play Windows games through a custom implementation of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit, with support for multiple storefronts. (by MythicApp)
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DXMT has been advancing very quickly: https://github.com/3Shain/dxmt
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highball
Run Windows games on Apple Silicon — free, open source, with an open compatibility database that tells you what actually works.
Project mention: Show HN: Highball – Run Windows games on Apple Silicon, with an open game db | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-26 -
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An interesting learning project, but not actually usable.
https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine looks interesting in this space, but unfortunately it can't really run anything remotely modern in practice (though if you're looking at 20th century Windows software it will likely be capable of running it).
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Wine discussion
Wine related posts
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Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM
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Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
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Steam Machine
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I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours
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Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Wine projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | dxvk | 18,198 |
| 2 | winapps | 16,030 |
| 3 | HeroicGamesLauncher | 12,334 |
| 4 | Bottles | 8,914 |
| 5 | photoshopCClinux | 4,511 |
| 6 | yabridge | 4,134 |
| 7 | winetricks | 3,546 |
| 8 | Steam-Deck-Guide | 2,196 |
| 9 | Apple-Silicon-Guide | 1,893 |
| 10 | ProtonPlus | 1,816 |
| 11 | nestri | 1,751 |
| 12 | docker-wine | 1,524 |
| 13 | Mythic | 1,418 |
| 14 | Wine-Builds | 1,286 |
| 15 | dxmt | 1,209 |
| 16 | cloud-morph | 1,182 |
| 17 | Photoshop-CC2022-Linux | 1,165 |
| 18 | highball | 1,121 |
| 19 | Conty | 1,116 |
| 20 | Boxedwine | 1,090 |
| 21 | winesapOS | 1,068 |
| 22 | Georgia-ReBORN | 1,026 |
| 23 | nix-gaming | 954 |
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