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This will sound stupid (I imagine you have already tried it)..
Does running it under wine work?
Last time I tried, I had no luck unfortunately...
Would love to hear if (and how) anyone actually made it work properly under wine!
you can use WinBoat to make it feel native and natural. besides that, there really isn't much to do..
Good luck!
Thanks, I will try it!
Hopefully Linux gets relevant enough, so that even the last company feels the need to provide a proper linux installer.
WinBoat is just a Windows VM. So it will work but you won't be able to connect it to anything that's not also in that VM. Might as well just dual boot Windows.