Wine 8.5

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Post by neustradamus » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 9:16 AM UTC

Re: Wine 8.5

#2

Post by acapybara » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 11:09 AM UTC

  What's new in this release:
    - Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.7.
    - Better error reporting in the IDL compiler.
    - Support for shared Wow64 Classes registry key.
    - More cleanups in IME support.
    - Support for configuring a WinRT dark theme.
    - Various bug fixes.

Re: Wine 8.5

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Post by worldsayshi » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 11:11 AM UTC

Is wine receiving patches from Valve's fork or are they completely separate at this point?

Re: Wine 8.5

#4

Post by troad » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 11:25 AM UTC

I'm constantly so astonished by how well Wine works these days. I remember the first time I heard about Wine, decades ago, and thinking "yeah, right!" But by God, they pulled it off.

I would not have been able to move to Linux full-time without Wine. Thanks!

Re: Wine 8.5

#5

Post by komadori » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 11:26 AM UTC

worldsayshi wrote: post #3

Is wine receiving patches from Valve's fork or are they completely separate at this point?

AFAIK, Valve pays CodeWeavers to work on Proton, so Proton is more of a curation of Wine like CrossOver Office rather than a hard-fork.

Re: Wine 8.5

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Post by buster » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 11:26 AM UTC

Wine is just a great piece of software. Not just for gaming but the occasional dreaded enterprise software. I happily pay for crossover.

Re: Wine 8.5

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Post by anotherhue » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 11:29 AM UTC

worldsayshi wrote: post #3

Is wine receiving patches from Valve's fork or are they completely separate at this point?

I assume they're free to pull in as they wish? I didn't see any proton reference in the changelog though.

Re: Wine 8.5

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Post by eurekin » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 11:36 AM UTC

troad wrote: post #4

I'm constantly so astonished by how well Wine works these days. I remember the first time I heard about Wine, decades ago, and thinking "yeah, right!" But by God, they pulled it off. I would not have been able to move to Linux full-time without Wine. Thanks!

I wouldn't be surprised, if wine became a "compatibility layer" embedded into a wsl in Windows at some point

Re: Wine 8.5

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Post by pabs3 » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 11:40 AM UTC

troad wrote: post #4

I'm constantly so astonished by how well Wine works these days. I remember the first time I heard about Wine, decades ago, and thinking "yeah, right!" But by God, they pulled it off. I would not have been able to move to Linux full-time without Wine. Thanks!

What Windows software do you still need on Linux?

Re: Wine 8.5

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Post by Avshalom » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 11:49 AM UTC

pabs3 wrote: post #9

troad wrote: post #4

I'm constantly so astonished by how well Wine works these days. I remember the first time I heard about Wine, decades ago, and thinking "yeah, right!" But by God, they pulled it off. I would not have been able to move to Linux full-time without Wine. Thanks!

What Windows software do you still need on Linux?

mostly games for myself but I've also needed it for various weird programs that some professor decided we should use for some homework.