Wine 2.0 released • Hacker News Board

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by Diederich » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #10

madez wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are downvoted because you are wrong. I have made very good experiences with wine.

How much of a performance hit have you seen when running games, compared to just running them in Windows on the same machine?

In most cases, I can't notice a difference in performance.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by darkengine » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

NotSteve wrote: post #3

Any hope of playing Overwatch with this?

You can reach the title screen in master, but it looks like that code won't make it into a relase until 2.1. Even then, it's still not playable.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by allemagne » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

Gaming is a big one too, but maybe less so now than in the past.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by pmiller2 » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:10 PM UTC

excalibur wrote: post #20

> The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS. This made me chuckle. Better late than never I suppose.

A volunteer reverse engineering project being only 3 years behind a gigantic corporation is actually pretty impressive.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by floatboth » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:10 PM UTC

ronjouch wrote: post #8

NotSteve wrote: post #3

Any hope of playing Overwatch with this?

AppDB is the canonical resource for this kind of question: https://appdb.winehq.org/ -> Returns https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... , which says it's currently classified "Garbage" as of 2.0-rc2.

"crashes immediately upon launching"

But there was a screenshot of the main menu on Wine! Maybe it was some experimental branch of Wine or something.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by rijoja » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:10 PM UTC

This brings me back to the early days of my Linux usage. I've always been fascinated by this project.

My very nerdy dream has always been to try to contribute to it somehow. How hard is it to get in to the community?

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by viraptor » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #10

madez wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are downvoted because you are wrong. I have made very good experiences with wine.

How much of a performance hit have you seen when running games, compared to just running them in Windows on the same machine?

Depends on the game. Some run better on Windows, some on Wine. You need to check for specific titles with this kind of question.

I've seen multiple sources claiming that CoD2 and WoW run with better FPS on Wine for example.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #10

madez wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are downvoted because you are wrong. I have made very good experiences with wine.

How much of a performance hit have you seen when running games, compared to just running them in Windows on the same machine?

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Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by ronjouch » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

Tag&Rename [1], a still maintained Windows-only shareware excellent at tagging music. Occasional use, Linux equivalents suck in various ways, it's perfectly configured to my needs, and works perfectly in Wine so why change it :)

[1] http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

EDIT: thanks for the Linux alternative suggestions everyone! I have (had) mostly the same complaints about ExFalso / Puddletag / EasyTAG as the ones I posted below about Picard (never tried Beets though). But most importantly, given this olde windows tool has been working fantastic for years, I don't see any reason to migrate my config and trust and habits :)

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by littleweep » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

rijoja wrote: post #26

This brings me back to the early days of my Linux usage. I've always been fascinated by this project. My very nerdy dream has always been to try to contribute to it somehow. How hard is it to get in to the community?

The beauty is you can contribute in any way. If you're a web designer, you can help with their site. If you're a technical writer, you can help improve documentation. You don't need to contribute to the core codebase to contribute to the project at large.