Wine 11.0 released

[Posted January 19, 2026 by jzb]

Version 11.0 of the Wine Windows compatibility layer is out. "This release represents a year of development effort, around 6,300 individual changes, and more than 600 bug fixes." The most notable changes in this release are support for the NTSync Linux kernel module (when available), and the completion of the Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit (WoW64) architecture that was announced as experimental in Wine 9.0.

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TurboTax replacement

Posted Jan 21, 2026 3:10 UTC (Wed) by apolinsky (subscriber, #19556) [Link] (8 responses)

Since the early 1990s I have used TurboTax to produce Federal and State returns. (I have always used Slackware on my machine and server) while remaining machines have been Linux, (Debian or Mint) depending on use, and one Windows 11 machine. I have been trying to convert that machine to Linux, but TurboTax is a hang up. It seeming does not work under Wine, and so far I have not found a suitable substitute. Years ago during Radio Shack 3 days I wrote something to help with tax preparation, but as I've aged, I would just love something that could take prior returns as input, allow current data entry, and produce an acceptable Federal and State return. Can someone suggest a possible avenue to explore?

Alan Polinsky

TurboTax replacement

Posted Jan 21, 2026 3:19 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (4 responses)

Why not a small VM with it? Also, I believe TurboTax has an online version.

TurboTax replacement

Posted Jan 21, 2026 11:14 UTC (Wed) by apolinsky (subscriber, #19556) [Link] (3 responses)

Though I might have to go the VM route, I've looked at the current situation with TurboTax and the only version of Windows it supports is Windows 11, at least according to documentation. I tried contacting TurboTax online and was told, possibly incorrectly, that I couldn't use any version of Linux for the online version. I didn't actually speak to one of the technical support staff, but rather one of the initial support contacts. They did put me on hold for several minutes to ostensibly check with the technical staff, but maybe they were just handling another call and hoping I would hang up.

Alan

TurboTax replacement

Posted Jan 21, 2026 18:09 UTC (Wed) by ClaudeRubinson (subscriber, #11921) [Link] (1 responses)

Turbo Tax online runs perfectly fine under Firefox Linux.

TurboTax replacement

Posted Jan 21, 2026 18:49 UTC (Wed) by apolinsky (subscriber, #19556) [Link]

Thank you very much for that confirmation. That will be the route I choose. I guess it is worthwhile to search out real answers to problems rather than questionable suppositions offered as fact.

Alan

TurboTax replacement

Posted Jan 22, 2026 6:23 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I first started using TurboTax online because it worked with KDE2 Konqureror/KHTML, and it still works just fine in Firefox on Linux. I am surprised that the offline version doesn't work for you in Wine, but such is life sometimes.

TurboTax replacement

Posted Jan 23, 2026 6:36 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link] (2 responses)

Like you, I kept a Windows machine around exclusively to do taxes, so the availability of browser-based tax software was a big deal for me. I honestly feel that browser-based software has done more to level the playing field for desktop Linux than Wine has. I still wish there was FOSS tax software*, but being able to run it in the browser means I don't have to keep a whole proprietary OS, too.

*I understand why there's no FOSS tax software, but that doesn't keep me from wishing there could be.

TurboTax replacement

Posted Jan 28, 2026 3:12 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

A couple of open tax projects from my browser history:

https://github.com/openfiletax/openfile (forked from IRS Direct File)
https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ (updated 2026)

TurboTax replacement

Posted Jan 28, 2026 12:41 UTC (Wed) by apolinsky (subscriber, #19556) [Link]

I'll take a gander this week.

Alan