[HN Gopher] Wine 8.1
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       Wine 8.1
        
       Author : neustradamus
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2023-02-02 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.winehq.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.winehq.org)
        
       | alphabet9000 wrote:
       | very grateful to the efforts of everyone involved with Wine
        
       | josteink wrote:
       | Wine gets better and better, more and more impressive...
       | 
       | And here I am having nothing to use it for, because all the
       | software I run or need is now available for Linux.
       | 
       | I guess I should be glad, but it still feels a little sad? All
       | that effort someone puts in, for a seemingly ever-decreasing
       | need?
        
         | Gigachad wrote:
         | Wine, packaged as proton, is essentially the future of gaming
         | on Linux now. Native ports kind of died out as running the
         | Windows build in Proton works better than the native port which
         | would often break after distro updates. It's also a better way
         | of just getting stuff fixed, if there was a bug in the native
         | linux build, you'd have to pester the developers of the game to
         | fix it, while we can assume the windows build works correct so
         | any issue can be fixed by fixing the open source Wine code.
         | 
         | Its remarkable that these days you can reasonably expect that
         | just about every game will work flawlessly running in wine.
        
         | haunter wrote:
         | >for a seemingly ever-decreasing need
         | 
         | I recommend you to read the "Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on
         | Linux" post. Sums up perfectly why Wine is needed and doing
         | perfectly https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/
         | 
         | The TLDR is that easier to make games for Windows (single OS
         | and API) and just maintaining Wine/Proton (works across all
         | distros) than actually making a Linux build too of the game.
         | 
         | Huge thread when it was posted here
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624
        
       | Gigachad wrote:
       | It's been many years since I used wine on its own outside of
       | proton. Is the experience mostly the same? As I understood,
       | proton included slightly newer patches and tools to make games
       | run better, did this stuff mostly make it back upstream?
       | 
       | Has anyone attempted running windows games on an Apple Silicon
       | mac yet? How well does that work? I seem to remember 32 bit
       | support being an issue previously.
        
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