Wine 8.5

[troad]

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!

[minimaul]

Wine (and Proton by extension) is a marvel.

Runs most of my windows software with little to no issue, and is more compatible with older games than Windows 10/11 itself!

[eurekin]

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

[bheadmaster]

The fact that so many games work well with Wine is extremely impressive. I was playing Skyrim on my Linux laptop and it was a perfectly smooth experience.

[pabs3]

What Windows software do you still need on Linux?

[heavyset_go]

It was good even decades ago. Wine is one of those projects that really impressed me back then and still does.

[insane_dreamer]

I gave up on Wine over a decade ago; I had no idea it has improved that much

[divan]

What would be the best way to give another try to Wine on MacOS to get this "works so well" experience?

[acapybara]

  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.

[buster]

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

[Labo333]

I have mixed experience with Wine, most of the times when I tried playing games it was close to impossible to install them. I go for Parallels Desktop those days (kudos to https://github.com/dreamncn/ParallelsDesktopCrack)

[cleanchit]

Works way better on linux. System tray support, desktop entries, and everything.

[ape4]

Just wondering, are there some things Wine can do that Windows can't? (Besides run on Linux)

[goosedragons]

Yes. Run 16 bit apps on a 64 bit OS install. A lot of old PC games no longer have 3D acceleration support on modern Windows like Jedi Knight I. On Wine the 3D acceleration just works. You can get Windows to do this stuff too of course but not out of the box.

[antibasilisk]

That's funny, I had a dream about running a program in WINE last night

[kk6mrp]

What can't be run in Wine at this point?

[worldsayshi]

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

[giomasce]

Proton developer here, working for CodeWeavers. Everything we develop goes preferentially in Wine, and is kept in Proton as a "hack" only when a solution clean enough for Wine is unfeasible or too complicated. Proton is periodically rebased onto Wine, so everything in Proton and not in Wine is additional rebasing work, which we'd like to avoid as much as possible.

[komadori]

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.

[anotherhue]

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