WINE 1.9.4 Released

[lolo_]

Hilarious to see a fix specifically for Ultima IX in this release - https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13683

Ultima IX, apart from being a terrible, awful end to a great series was renowned for being buggy as hell.

Kudos to the wine developers, if you're fixing things like this, you have an unbelievable attention to detail!

[Hydraulix989]

Reading the messages on this bug shows you how much of a hunt it was. It turned out to be undocumented messaging behavior in user32.

[davidgerard]

Lotta the Codeweavers Wine devs are gamers, so of course they want their games to work too ;-)

[_qbjt]

As a die hard Ultima fan, I just try to forget that Ultima IX ever existed.

[Polarity]

best test case ever

[dom96]

Funny, I just spent a couple of hours trying to get a game (that my girlfriend loves) working with Wine on Mac OS X. Wineskin proved to be very useful and after playing with some settings the game now works perfectly! Kudos to the Wine contributors :)

[glossyscr]

Out of curiosity: Is there any Windows killer app in 2016 I need WINE for?

[aidenn0]

As a gamer, most of the tools for aiding with GMing role playing games are windows only.

Some examples:

Shadowrun 3rd edition has an excellent free-as-in-beer character management tool that runs fine under wine.

Essentially all of the mapping software; even open-source AutoREALM is windows only (though there is a port to wx in progress). I use the profantasy (proprietary) tools which mostly work under wine, though I had to bypass the copy-protection to get it to work despite being a paying customer :(

With SaaS beoming more popular, there are now webapps that cover some of the features above, though to varying degrees of polish.

[sauere]

Photoshop. The only reason i am still running OSX is Photoshop.

[aserafini]

If you make music and use a DAW, then Reaper is a killer app. To run on Linux it's recommended to use WINE. It's speculation, but I'm pretty sure they'd release a native-Linux version if it didn't work so perfectly well with WINE.

[sehugg]

I do all of my app development in Borland Delphi 2.0.

No, just kidding. I just sometimes fantasize about being able to.

[raverbashing]

Also, having a Windows VM provides (usually) a much better experience (but yeah, you need the Windows license).

I'd say games, which benefit from the shorter abstraction and hardware acceleration

[rym_]

Office, though it doesn't work with WINE. Other than that not for me. Games for some people I think.

[michh]

I use WINE on a daily basis for 1Password. The browser integration even works with the native Linux version of Chrome, which is a much better user experience than copypasting passwords from the html/js based 1PasswordAnywhere.

[yoodenvranx]

foobar2000 is still by far the best music player.

[webreac]

AFAIK wine is still needed for a bunch of old app:

I have installed ubuntu on the computer of my old parents. Wine was mandatory to use powerpoint viewer.

Personally, I need the windows version of firefox to watch catchup TV (DRM protected using flash).

[izacus]

Depends on what you do - lately I've been mostly installing it to people's computers to run certain specialized windows-only software, things like Origin for physicists, project management software, internal company software that kind of thing. Running these things is still usually was less hassle than having to maintain a fully blown VM with all the file and clipboard sharing issues that causes to less techy people.

If all you do is browse web and use a few portable apps you're fine.

[wosc]

Kindle for PC, to funnel ebooks through to calibre (http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/). Even though I'm sceptical of the monopoly-like situation, Amazon still often has the widest range and lowest prices on ebooks.

[conorgdaly]

Toad for MySql (it's db data compare is unrivalled)...but it doesn't work on WINE.

[Ace17]

Ableton Live

[throwaway60453]

Killer Business use of Wine: when you have a linux farm, and you really need that one Windows accounting/enterprise/billing app, and you don't want to manage/license a Windows Server.

[amelius]

Cross-browser testing of your web code (Explorer)

[rodelrod]

In my case: Evernote, Office and SQLyog. Also the Adobe Suite, but if find that to be unusable under wine so I go for a VirtualBox.

[_vk_]

Games.

[guard-of-terra]

Darkest Dungeon!

[vasili111]

Skype windows version (Linux version does not have video calls).

[mdip]

I'm always curious with releases of Wine about specifically what new software can be run that couldn't be run with the previous version(s).

It's been a long time since I've done anything with Wine, but I'm pleased to see that they have a rather comprehensive wiki/application compatibility database at https://appdb.winehq.org/ that includes detailed instructions for getting things running. The last time I had a need for Wine, I ended up buying Crossover Office after nearly causing myself a bald spot trying to get an application working[1]. It's nice to see such a comprehensive source of help for those of us who are unfamiliar with the ins and outs of Wine.

[1] IIRC, the setup file was not possible to "just run", whereas Crossover gave me a "point it at the CD and launch the wizard" approach, though at a $60 cost. I'm not against spending the money, especially since they are actively involved in contributing to the success of Wine, but it's nice that it's looking like the product is becoming a lot less necessary for newbs like me. I guess I'll see how far the mileage goes when I get Ubuntu going on the laptop I'm currently loading.

[vanous]

I never used wine too much but lately have been utilising it with the playonlinux configuration front-end (hint: games for kids) and it's great. I will also test next week one of Minolta's Windows only colorimetric drivers. Right now, even virtual box didn't do well and we have to use separate box just for the spectrometers.

[bobajeff]

I wonder if they have any plans on implementing DirectX on top of Vulkan to make things faster.

[kcbanner]

There wouldn't really be a big advantage to that I think. The whole point of Vulkan is to give more control to the application developer (submit work from multiple threads, etc).

[voltagex_]

I reckon it's more likely there'll be an OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan which Wine will just be able to use.

[Keyframe]

Can anyone tell me if latest Adobe CC (2015) Cloud'n'stuff™ works on WINE? Namely how Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator, AME, and Photoshop behave in contrast to Windows? If they work at all.

[chrisper]

I always wondered how safe is it to run something in Wine? (E.g. Steam games)

[Redoubts]

What do you mean by safe?

[eicossa]

has anybody any experience with running the evernote desktop client using wine ?

[zZorgz]

Nitpick: I just don't like seeing the name written out butchered, but it's Wine not WINE (and the latter looks a lot worse IMO)

[JamesMcMinn]

Given that it was originally an acronym, and the logo of the official website uses block-caps, it's hardly butchering to write it as WINE.