Codebook for Linux and/or Wine

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With Microsoft dropping support for Windows 10 on nearly all the computers I own, I am being forced to re-consider my choice of password manager. Already most of my development work is on Linux (using virtual machines), and the lack of a Codebook distribution which works on Linux (even under Wine) is increasingly problematic. (I don’t want to have to spin up a Windows 10 VM on every computer I own just to look up a password - nor do I want to maintain a Windows 10 VM just for Codebook compatibility). And copying >12 character random passwords from an Android device is just painful.

Will I have to migrate away from Codebook? Or does Zetetic have any plans to support some subset of functionality on Linux (even under WINE).

I know the previous responses have been “we don’t have enough people to support a less popular platform”, but a cut-down version which ran on Linux under WINE is surely worth considering given Microsoft’s plan to obsolete 50% of the computers running Windows, and the increasing preference for Linux in the developer community.

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Pleas add me - another very longtime user - all the way back from the days it was called “S.T.R.I.P.” and ran on PalmOS - that is interested in an Linux-native port. Microsoft has alienated me with their recent W11-you-must-buy-a-new-machine bologna, and, aside from this iPhone, I have no desire to live in the jail that macOS is…

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Seconding this and adding to the other thread. I had to use KeepassDX on linux just to get similar functionality. Failed with setting things up for WINE and bottles. I think it has to do with Microsoft’s Windows Hello functionality.