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To those using it: did it happen to you at least once to find out that a specific application (or game) you really needed did not work with Wine? What was it?
The game used to work though, so I really can't blame WINE for this.
To those using it: did it happen to you at least once to find out that a specific application (or game) you really needed did not work with Wine? What was it?
If I could get this, I could run Linux on all of my work dev machines. But I'm pretty sure the day this works is rather far away. Thankfully, people like Anastasius Focht have been extremely helpful in dealing with related issues.
Thanks a lot to the team for these improvements As a normal man, in addition to the technical changelog, what would be interesting for me to have is a list of software that can now be run by wine, or that have a significantly improved experience with this version compare to 1.7
It's not in alpha like ReactOS. In my experience, most simple apps work well and many older games run perfectly. If there's something you want to run, check the app DB. It's complete and well maintained. https://appdb.winehq.org/
To those using it: did it happen to you at least once to find out that a specific application (or game) you really needed did not work with Wine? What was it?
Games are great and everything, but I'm still hoping for Visual Studio support. Ever since MS switched to a WPF-style UI (2010 and newer), it's been unusable. Here's the status for VS 2015 as of 1.7.49: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI... . If I could get this, I could run Linux on all of my work dev machines. But I'm pretty sure the day this works is rather far away. Thankfully, people li…
I recently used Wine on Ubuntu and was amazed how smoothly it just worked. Download an msi Windows installer and open it just like you would in Windows. The program installs just like on Windows, and runs from its own icon just like in Windows. You hardly need to think about the fact that it's not Windows. Understandably there were a few compatibility problems but having it so well integrated into the UI was a surpri…
Interesting. Is that just Wine itself, or does Ubuntu/GNOME/whoever have some special sauce that facilitates the seamless desktop integration?
I've found it to work remarkably well with games. Basically install Steam from Wine and then install Steam games like you normally would. It mostly just works.
I also installed and played "Path of Exile" through Wine with no problems. It's a fast, online hack 'n slash where if I died I would have to start over tens of hours of gameplay and Wine never let me down on latency or anything.
Great work by Wine team. I use Wine for a lot of Windows application but I could never make Office (2010 and later) work on Ubuntu. If I can somehow do that, probably I would never switch back to Windows. Open Office/Libre office is frustrating and so are most online word replacements.
I recently used Wine on Ubuntu and was amazed how smoothly it just worked. Download an msi Windows installer and open it just like you would in Windows. The program installs just like on Windows, and runs from its own icon just like in Windows. You hardly need to think about the fact that it's not Windows. Understandably there were a few compatibility problems but having it so well integrated into the UI was a surpri…
Interesting. Is that just Wine itself, or does Ubuntu/GNOME/whoever have some special sauce that facilitates the seamless desktop integration?
It also generates .desktop files for Windows programs entries that populate your ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs folder and are thus indexed by most desktop application launchers. That means when I install Skyrim on Linux it shows up in krunner.
Great work by Wine team. I use Wine for a lot of Windows application but I could never make Office (2010 and later) work on Ubuntu. If I can somehow do that, probably I would never switch back to Windows. Open Office/Libre office is frustrating and so are most online word replacements.