[Enhancement] [General] Linux Support via Wine

[taaderbe]

Hi I really love this app.

But when I swtich to Linux I can't use it any longer, any chance to get Linux version?

I can at least offer professionell testing, which I do since 20 years, if it's needed.

[HiMarioLopez]

Sadly no Linux version is in the works since we deliver the app as a windows executable package .exe

A cross-platform version would require some drastic rework, if not a complete rebuild of the app. I think it's something I want to do in the future, but it's hard to balance such large changes / rebuilds with my full time job haha

Right now this is a .NET Framework 4.8 WPF app, if we rebuild it as a .NET 6/7 MAUI app or maybe even try another framework like Avalonia we could attain cross-platform compatibility. I would take some time to even estimate how much effort a rebuild would take.

Even further from the original codebase would be to rework it into a JavaScript/TypeScript based app using something like Electron. But even more to change up as we wouldn't be able to re-use any of our logic written in C#.

So long winded answer, but I hope you understand the difficulties found at the moment with porting to Linux. Thank you for offering your assistance for testing purposes. I will definitely keep the community updated if a rebuild is something we can start to seriously consider.

[taaderbe]

Thanks, yes I fully understand that this is not "easy done". I would love to use it on linux, anyway still good job thanks for that. Keep going with good work.

[ZerkerEOD]

@taaderbe, I was able to get the newest version running on Linux. I am running EndeavourOS (Archbased) so you may need to research some of the steps and convert them to the system you are running.

First I made sure wine was fully up to date (I initially had wine-staging installed which was running version 8.something. I upgraded using yay -S wine which installed wine version 9.5. After the installation, I installed .net 8.0.3 via the link on the homepage. Wine will pick it up easily to double click and install. Then I downloaded the .msi and installed the same way (double click and work through the installer).

I then ran into an issue and after some searching it seemed to come down to some fonts causing issues. So I needed to install winetricks (yay -S winetricks) then run winetricks corefonts

After the fonts were installed it started right up. I am about to actually see if it runs in game and on that I am not as hopeful but will let you know,.

[ZerkerEOD]

With the above, I was able to get it to run. In the game, I wasn't able to use "Windowed Fullscreen" as it would not overlay over the game. I had to set it to use Windowed for it to over lay. I was then able to bring up the stash screen and edit it to what I needed. So right now it looks like it works with the above work around on Linux.

[HiMarioLopez]

Wow! That is amazing news. Thank you so much for testing this out!

[ZerkerEOD]

Yeah, looking at Wine's documentation it appears I needed at least version 9.01-rc to handle an issue with the user32.dll, other than that it appears to work well.