This program is a good motivator for finally removing my Windows partition, especially if it works for more cases than WINE, although WINE is amazing!

It basically integrates a Windows VM into Linux. That way using Windows programs is more seamless on Linux. One of the things you can use it for is a backup in case Wine does not work.

Per the project’s README:

Rather than wait around for this, WinApps was created as an easy, one command way to include apps running inside a VM (or on any RDP server) directly into GNOME as if they were native applications. WinApps works by:

• Running a Windows RDP server in a background VM container
• Checking the RDP server for installed applications such as Microsoft Office
• If those programs are installed, it creates shortcuts leveraging FreeRDP for both the CLI and the GNOME tray
• Files in your home directory are accessible via the \tsclient\home mount inside the VM
• You can right click on any files in your home directory to open with an application, too

Basically running a Windows VM and treating the applications running on them as native Linux applications.