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We're excited to have you onboard! Pick your platform below to get started with WinBoat within minutes, not hours.
🚧 WinBoat is currently in Beta, so expect to occasionally run into hiccups and bugs. You should be comfortable with some level of troubleshooting if you decide to try it, however we encourage you to give it a shot anyway. The current iteration is not representative of the final product.
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WinBoat is an open-source project licensed under MIT, and we welcome contributions from the community. Whether you're a developer, designer, or just someone who loves WinBoat, there are many ways you can help us improve and grow.
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How does it compare to WinApps?
With WinApps you do the bulk of the setup manually, and there's no cohesive interface to bring it all together. There's a basic TUI, a taskbar widget, and some CLI commands for you to play with.
What are the advantages of using this over CrossOver or WINE?
You can run stuff that doesn't play well with CrossOver or WINE, and have a full Windows desktop at the same time.
Will I be able to configure my peripherals / hardware using WinBoat?
If your peripheral / hardware uses USB to connect to your device. then yes! Starting from WinBoat 0.8.0 we support USB passthrough as an experimental feature and you can use any Windows software needed for configuration, it should work out of the box.
Is there USB passthrough?
Yes! Starting from WinBoat 0.8.0 we support USB passthrough as an experimental feature. Please give it a try and let us know what you think! 😄
Is there GPU passthrough?
Not at the moment, but we plan on eventually implementing GPU acceleration through paravirtualized drivers.
Does it run games with anti-cheat that don't run on Linux?
Unfortunately running games with kernel anti-cheat is not possible, as they block virtualization.
Any possibility of adding Podman support as a Docker alternative?
Podman support is planned. We tried working on it, some contributors also tried working on it, but there's some issues with networking (specifically the guest server being unreachable) that prevent it from being functional for now.
Will you make it into a Flatpak?
This is on our to-do list, but it'll take some effort because Flatpak is pretty isolated from the rest of the system and apps, so we'd have to find a way to expose installed apps, the Docker binary, and the Docker socket, and many other utilities.