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Can you run it in Bottles of Wine?
That’s the idea… run Windows in a Bottle. I usually find a glass of Verdicchio helps with the installation process.
Lol. If you drink enough bottles of wine you won’t have to worry about not having a GUI in Linux…
you’re biggest accomplishment at that point will be being able to lay down on the floor without holding on! 
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It’s now August 2023 and Windows, whilst still dominant, is sitting at 69%. OSX is the big winner, although in % terms Linux is up 30%.
I use Linux . I have RoonBridge installed so the Linux desktop can play music but control it from the phone. Not the greatest usability but it’s OK. To be honest I tend to use the phone to control all my Roon endpoints so simply treat my Linux box the same as my Hifi, headphone setup, bedroom system etc
I have built a simple Linux GUI app that displays the current track with artwork and allows simply pause/play control to run in the desktop but sadly the Roon API doesn’t allow this to connect as a display automatically - i.e. to set it up I have to go to a Room control point (e.g. my phone) and link the display the app has created with my Linux desktop’s Roon zone.
Personally my thoughts are that if Roon want to help the Linux world the better answer would be to expand/complete the API and then hobbyists would build Roon controls and displays around the existing Linux RoonBridge.
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Linux desktop usage is now a tad over 3% from 2.5% a year ago… doesn’t change things really. If you exclude Asia, Africa, and South America from the data, the figure is probably 1.5%.
Fortunately, Roon on Wine is pretty good at the moment, and for playback roon-tui is a promising addition.
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Isn’t there already a web based controller using extensions.
I had it running on my Echo Show nearly a half decade ago.
I can’t get the wine version to run and it’s honestly a pretty big hassle. I’m thinking maybe just run a windows vm and install Roon on it so you don’t have to use your phone to control it.
Make sure you install Wine Staging.
Damn, as much as I like Roon on my home setup, I hate the lack of proper Linux client. Just a simple Web client would be sufficient. Third party Web Controller is at least something, but it is drastically simplistic and requires to run node app separately (right?)
Why? Why??
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Roon already offers a http based display of the current playing pane. It shouldn’t be too big a hassle to expand that to a simple control pane. .?
It’s really a pity, that I can’t control playback from my Linux PC.
Is there a feature request where I can add my vote? I couldn’t find any.
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Search for Linux in Feedback > Feature Suggestions and this will come up as one of the top relevant results:
Hello everyone, sorry to revive this old post, but since I was quite happy to find this solution, I wanted to share. Just to say that Roon Desktop seems to work out of the box with Lutris running Windows10.
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I have also using Linux and need GUI
Community Remote for Linux, first native Linux GUI (v0.0.9) This runs pretty well here.
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From my vision will be useful to arm roon core with web interface identical with native application.
Like others, I’ve been waiting for Roon to support Linux, in my case, for about 8 or 9 years. I check back in here annually or so, and remain gobsmacked that they are unable to manage such a simple development task – and by the shockingly poor quality of their site and support, which would give me pause about purchasing such an expensive product even if it was available for my systems.
If I wanted to mess around with running a Windows application in Wine ( again ), I would just go back to using MediaMonkey, which has all the same features, and for which I already have a lifetime Gold license at a tiny fraction of the cost of Roon. Same deal if I wanted to run a constant Windows VM on one of my several hypervisor environments – I can do that, but then I’ll just run MediaMonkey on it, practically for free in comparison.
The bottom line is that all of the best operating systems in the world today are Linux, of one stripe or another. Any company unable to support that, is failing further and further behind – and is certainly not a company that many people are going to want to pay monthly, in perpetuity.
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Best or not, the simple answer is this:
(I used Linux on the desktop since 1995 but this is the reality)
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And, as is often the case, and as was previously observed by others in this thread, the simple answer is wrong. The market for a personal-use software product that costs almost a thousand dollars, or an unlimited amount via subscription, is not “all computer users” – very far from it, in fact. Especially not when competing products offer all of the same functionality for a relative pittance.
The vast majority of those Windows and Mac OS users never buy any software for those computers directly, except an office suite, and games. There is no circumstance where they are considering spending over $800 on a piece of software, so they are irrelevant to this discussion.
The market for this product is the people who want the alleged best solution, and don’t much care what it costs – and that hasn’t been Windows for about forty years now, and it’s never come from Apple.
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