Wine 8.5

by neustradamus on 4/1/2023, 9:16 AM with 91 comments
  • by troad on 4/1/2023, 11:25 AM

    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!

  • by acapybara on 4/1/2023, 11:09 AM

      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.

  • by buster on 4/1/2023, 11:26 AM

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

  • by Labo333 on 4/1/2023, 1:45 PM

    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)

  • by ape4 on 4/1/2023, 12:52 PM

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

  • by antibasilisk on 4/1/2023, 12:11 PM

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

  • by kk6mrp on 4/1/2023, 5:13 PM

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

  • by worldsayshi on 4/1/2023, 11:11 AM

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