Max

There’s definitely software that uses parts of the windows API that games don’t touch. And doesn’t work properly on Wine. I keep a windows install around just for using an analysis software for some lab equipment that refuses to start in wine.

Things like CAD software are also a struggle, though the latest wine seems to have resolved a number of graphics issues with getting PTC Creo to properly use the nvapi and nvidia graphics drivers through wine.

While wine is amazing, plenty of things don’t work with it. Usually you don’t need them, but if you do, you do

The symptoms you describe are exactly what happens to my machine when it runs out of memory and then starts swapping really hard. This is easy to check by seeing if disk io also spikes when it happens, and if memory usage is high

On linux and Mac there’s also https://vorta.borgbase.com/ which is pretty good

Your filter rule association is set to ‘rule’. What is that associated rule, and do things work if you change it to ‘pass’?

https://www.reddit.com/r/opnsense/comments/puty62/correct_option_for_filter_rule_association_when/

Instead of connecting with a web browser, can you try using curl or telnet just to check if you’re getting through at the TCP/IP connection level?

I thought I saw that Mac has the same CUPS print service/printer manager that Linux uses? In fact it seems like apple developed it. I think that helps enormously with standardizing printer configs. https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html

For gaming like that (remote over the network), I’d recommend sunshine and moonlight. They work great if your network can handle the upload