Hello,
How do I install WinBoat in KDE Linux OS?
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Not being familiar with this software, it might fall under KDE Linux/Install software not available in Discover - KDE Community Wiki.
We also have en empty page for āHow to install software only available on Windowsā that would probably be a better fit for documentation about how to do this once itās fleshed out.
The page is currently empty because I have no interest or experience in running general non-game Windows software on Linux, and others who do have that interest and experience havenāt written the page yet.
Thanks guys,
I think I need to re-phrase my question:
I have downloaded and run āWinBoat-0.8.7-x86_64.AppImageā. I have been able to meet all the pre-requisites, but when the dialogue window asks where (location) to install the VM, I canāt write a path nor use the Select-button. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I donāt know. Since this is 3rd-party software, I think youāll have to do some troubleshooting yourself.
For what itās worth, itās been my experience that despite AppImage apps being billed as āuniversalā and āruns anywhereā, this is not really the case; most that Iāve used rely on a variety of assumptions about the host operating system that can be untrue and cause the AppImage-packaged app to not work properly.
Since KDE Linux is fairly un-traditional with its read-only /usr volume, itās quite possible that the AppImage has made a bad assumption about something. Or maybe thereās just a bug in the embedded installer.
Good luck figuring it out!
Ok, thanks! 
Totte, have you tried Linux Wine? It does same things than WinBoat.
I have heard, that Wine can run Windows programs like MS Office and many others too.
Winboat is a virtual machine that runs Windows. Wine is a translation layer that runs Windows apps in a Linux environment.
They are not the same. You will not be able to run Office 365 or up-to-date Adobe software locally with Wine.
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My suggestion is maybe to ask the Winboat Devs in this case.
An alternative until you work this out is installing Gnome-Booxes from Flathub.
You wonāt get the same thing where you can see windows next to your Linux apps, but I guess it depends on whether that was the reason why you wanted Winboat specifically or if you just need to run Windows software in a virtual machine every so often.
Another one that is very similar to Winboat is Winapps, the installation is very manual though and again you might be stuck on an immutable distro.
Did you manage to get it working?
There is a merge request that adds support for flatpak, but it has not been merged yet. Add flatpak support by ea7ababe Ā· Pull Request #629 Ā· TibixDev/winboat Ā· GitHub
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No, I will wait for the flatpak release. 
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It works to run Roblox in WinBoat but it lags too much to be playable.
Do you have issues with Sober that requires you to use a VM ?
No emulators. No virtual machines. No cruft. We disable ads and telemetry by default.
I donāt use it but on Flathub its description says this
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Iām not sure if I have tried Sober, I will try it!
Are there anything similar for Fortnite?
Unfortunately Fortnite has a really strong anticheat and will not work in a way like Sober does.
You can have a bit more informations about how it works here :