With Wine, Chromebook’s can get fully powered Windows apps. Sure, Microsoft services are on Android in app form, but are usually watered down experiences. Users of Google’s ChromeOS have been limited to Android and Linux apps. The Wine project is working on using QEMU to emulate x86 CPU instructions on ARM, but that’s not complete yet.”Īrguably more impressive is Wine 3.0 allows Chromebook users to run Windows apps. Wine does support ARM devices, but you can only use programs that were ported to Windows RT.
So you’ll need an x86 Android device to take full advantage of it.
Wine is only a compatibility layer, and not a full-blown emulator,
The graphics driver doesn’t support Direct3D yet, so many programs (especially games) won’t work at all unless you can force them to use OpenGL. The DPI scaling is also very buggy, and it’s difficult to use on a touchscreen. The app only fully opened on my OnePlus 5T – it crashed on my Galaxy Tab S and froze on my 2016 Pixel. “Since Wine for Android is in its early days, there are several major limitations right now.
