# Codebook for Linux and/or Wine

**URL:** <https://discuss.zetetic.net/t/codebook-for-linux-and-or-wine/6885>\
**Category:** Codebook\
**Created:** [March 27, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.zetetic.net/t/codebook-for-linux-and-or-wine/6885 "2025-03-27T21:55:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mzb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@mzb](https://discuss.zetetic.net/u/mzb)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.zetetic.net/t/codebook-for-linux-and-or-wine/6885/1 "2025-03-27T21:55:23Z")

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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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**Author:** ![pbabcock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.zetetic.net/pbabcock/32/1449_2.png) [@pbabcock](https://discuss.zetetic.net/u/pbabcock)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.zetetic.net/t/codebook-for-linux-and-or-wine/6885/2 "2025-10-08T15:15:59Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Screamapillar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.zetetic.net/screamapillar/32/2462_2.png) [@Screamapillar](https://discuss.zetetic.net/u/Screamapillar)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.zetetic.net/t/codebook-for-linux-and-or-wine/6885/3 "2025-10-10T20:39:03Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![developernotes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.zetetic.net/developernotes/32/1309_2.png) [@developernotes](https://discuss.zetetic.net/u/developernotes)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.zetetic.net/t/codebook-for-linux-and-or-wine/6885/4 "2026-03-16T19:21:58Z")

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We have just released support for running Codebook on Linux! More information can be found [here](https://discuss.zetetic.net/t/codebook-for-windows-5-3-10-codebook-on-linux/7184).