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Wine projects on GitHub

Compatibility layer that runs Windows applications on Linux and macOS.

As of , the most-starred Wine projects on GitHub are Proton (33.1K stars), winlator (19.5K stars) and dxvk (18.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Wine repositories with 146.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was DroidDeck, with +574 stars in a day.

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13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ValveSoftware/Proton

    Proton

    Proton is a compatibility tool for the Steam client that lets games exclusive to Windows run on Linux. It is based on Wine plus additional components.

    33.1K
  2. #2 · brunodev85/winlator

    winlator

    Winlator is a free, open-source Android app that runs Windows (x86_64) applications and games directly on your phone or tablet, using Wine and Box86/Box64.

    19.5K
  3. #3 · doitsujin/dxvk

    dxvk

    DXVK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8, 9, 10 and 11. It lets 3D applications and games run on Linux under Wine by translating D3D calls to Vulkan instead of using Wine's built-in wined3d.

    18.3K
  1. 4

    reactos

    18.2Kreactos/reactos · C

    A free, open-source operating system (GNU GPL 2.0) built to run the applications and drivers written for the Windows NT family, from NT4 through 7; compatibility work currently focuses on Windows Server 2003.

  2. 5

    winapps

    16.1Kwinapps-org/winapps · Shell

    WinApps runs Windows applications like Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud on GNU/Linux with GNOME, KDE Plasma or XFCE, presenting them as if they were native apps, complete with shortcuts in your application menu.

  3. 6

    Whisky

    15.1KWhisky-App/Whisky · Swift

    Whisky is a free, open-source Wine wrapper for macOS with a native SwiftUI interface, letting you run Windows apps and games on a Mac without a Windows installation.

  4. 7

    HeroicGamesLauncher

    12.4KHeroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher · TypeScript

    Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source games launcher that lets you log in to your Epic Games, GOG and Amazon Games accounts and install, update and play your games from one app on Linux, Windows and macOS.

  5. 8

    DroidDeck

    9.7KDroid-Deck/DroidDeck · Kotlin

    DroidDeck brings the SteamOS Big Picture experience to Android, letting you run Valve's Steam client and Windows games via Valve's ARM64 Proton on an Adreno-powered Android handheld.

  6. 9

    NotProton

    1.8KNotProtonNot/NotProton · Scala

    NotProton unlocks the 'Steam Play' feature of the Linux Steam client inside the macOS Steam app, letting Windows-only games run on a Mac through a ported version of Valve's Proton.

  7. 10

    highball

    1.6Kgauthierpiarrette/highball · Swift

    Highball is a native macOS app (with a companion CLI) that sets up Wine, DXMT, D3DMetal and DXVK so you can run Windows games on Apple Silicon, backed by an open compatibility database that tells you what actually works.

  8. 11

    omakade

    438btsouth/omakade · C++

    Omakade is a local-first game library app built for Omarchy that gathers your installed Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Faugus, RetroArch, Battle.net, Epic, GOG, and Amazon games into one cover-focused home screen that follows your Omarchy theme.

  9. 12

    d4r

    288countervolts/d4r · C++

    d4r runs NVIDIA's official DLSS Super Resolution library inside Windows games on AMD Radeon GPUs under Linux and Proton, translating the DLSS network through ZLUDA (CUDA on ROCm/HIP) and replacing the heaviest kernels with hand-written RDNA3/RDNA4 code. It supports the DLSS 3 CNN model and the DLSS 4/4.5 transformer models; DLSS 5 is not supported.

  10. 13

    recall

    253AsherJN/recall · Python

    Recall is a free, open-source macOS app that lets you play Overwatch on Apple Silicon Macs, using Wine and a custom Metal translation layer instead of CrossOver or Windows.

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