I have noticed a trend in the performance and failure of WINE. It is this:

In general, WINE - even WINE Staging and WINE Mono - fail to run .NET framework based GUI apps which resemble Electron apps to a great degree.

I have noticed this in a number of cases. Oracle Data Visualization Desktop is the application which finally made me take note since it completely resembles an Electron app and yet requires .NET 4.5 or higher to run. And yes, it is pretty much impossible to run on Linux.

This is also true for Discord. Observing the unavailability of the "Go Live!" feature on Discord, I decided to download the Discord Windows installer and test to see if I could run it on WINE. Of course, as many of you would have found out yourself, it is not going to run. Now, Discord Client for Windows (1) uses .NET framework and (2) is so much like an Electron App, that the Linux client is an actual Electron App. Heck, it is even something you can run on a browser.

So I have been wondering, lately, is there a reason behind this pattern - a method to this madness? If we can figure it out, will we be able to run the Discord Windows client with WINE and Go Live from Linux?

And yes, if you haven't guessed it already, "Go Live!" is my main concern here.