Saved you a click: Winboat
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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So how is it different to a virtual machine on VirtualBox?
I wonder when will be the Podman update, to run it on Bazzite.
does this finally let me run proprietary windows software to configure my mouse firmware?
i guess the answer is yes, if your mouse stores the changes in mouse itself. essentially they are running windows in a vm, and store changes in mouse, and that works even after you closed the vm
That's pretty cool! Does anyone know if this allows one to play anti-cheat enabled games? Would be interesting to know if we can spoof HWID stuff with this to make it look like we're playing on an actual Windows device.
According to the website, it does not. But it also doesn't support GPU passthrough yet, so it's not yet really an option for most games anyway.
Unfortunately, theres a LOT of ways for software to detect its running in a VM. Depending on the method used, it can be practically impossible to hide. Even if spoofing methods improve, anticheats will improve their detection methods in response.
seems like it's just windows running in a docker container, with some linux integrations
How does it compare to Winapps?
More streamlined installer, less/no command line in favor of GUI. Comes as an appimage but requires some packages to be installed on the host.
Looks like yet another dockur windows fork. More polished than most, I'd say.