Can Wine run Fork, the git client?

I'm new to Linux and the only contact I have had with Wine-like software is through Steam's Proton, which works surprisingly well (though it is taylored for their platform, so it makes sense to work so well).

The thing is that I'm planning on 100% move my operations to Linux (Ubuntu) and that includes my software development operations too. I have a Fork license and the developer says they won't be developing a Linux version, and I quote their exact reply, "until a modern UI library appears on Linux.", whatever they mean by "modern".

That being said, I've never tried random software on Wine. Does anybody know if Fork (or any other software that relies so much in the filesystem) works in it?

Thanks

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Fork is rated as "Garbage" in Wine's database, so we can safely assume that it would not work. However, free and open source alternatives are available.

GitHub Desktop is an excellent GUI git client, and it works natively (without Wine).

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You can enter the following commands one by one to add its repository to your system,

wget -qO - | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/shiftkey-desktop.asc > /dev/null
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/packagecloud-shiftky-desktop.list'
sudo apt-get update

Then install GitHub Desktop with the command

sudo apt install github-desktop

Alternatively, you can download the .deb package from and install it.

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