Wine 10.16 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

by neustradamus on 10/5/2025, 9:26 PM with 23 comments
  • by drnick1 on 10/6/2025, 12:05 AM

    It's amazing how far Wine has come. Proton combines Wine with DVXK and other libraries and allows to play practically any Windows game on Linux with a negligible performance hit. I remember using Proton around 2021 and it already worked fairly well but now the experience is incredibly smooth. 2025 is definitely the year of the Linux gaming desktop.

  • by throwaway2046 on 10/6/2025, 12:03 AM

    Wine has seen a massive improvement since the introduction of WoW64, and now it apparently supports 16-bit programs too. Many thanks to the Wine devs who made this possible.

  • by yjftsjthsd-h on 10/6/2025, 3:24 AM

    So I'm curious; the tagline/title is,

    > Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

    Obviously it gets used a lot on Linux (not only because of SteamOS using it through Proton, but that certainly contributes), I think I've read about people using it on Darwin, but how much testing/use does it get on the BSDs and Solaris?

  • by Razengan on 10/5/2025, 9:51 PM

    People writing emulators are the unsung heroes of tech and art preservation /salute