Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new biweekly development release is out now with Wine 7.7.
It's a major part of what makes up Steam Play Proton and enables a ton of games to work on the Steam Deck. Once a year or so, a new stable release is made.
Here's what they listed as the highlights in Wine 7.7:
- More progress on the PE conversion of the X11 and OSS drivers.
- Support for UTF-8 as default Ansi codepage.
- Theming support for control panel applets.
- Various bug fixes.
Since it's sometimes asked: the continued conversion of various modules to PE is another change that will gradually increase compatibility in many ways over time for certain expected behaviour needed by Windows applications. Previously Wine has built its Win32 libraries (like DLLs and EXEs) as ELF but for many reasons (like better compatibility) they've started to move them over to use PE instead.
They only noted 11 bugs were found to be solved as of this release including issues with Anno 1602 / 1602 A.D., Steam and other miscellaneous issues.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
StalePopcorn Apr 23, 2022
Thanks, Apple!
Another reason Proton isn't and can't be a thing on macOS—Apple.
Last edited by Shmerl on 24 April 2022 at 3:17 am UTC
...is working again with this release with latest Mesa...Debian + latest Mesa? Really? Is there easy way for my MX linux to get fresh Mesa 22 up&running?
...is working again with this release with latest Mesa...Debian + latest Mesa? Really? Is there easy way for my MX linux to get fresh Mesa 22 up&running?
I don't use packaged Mesa for gaming, but build Mesa main and run games with it.
See here:
https://gist.github.com/shmerl/f4e5f76871239158cf083e37c5da56f4
See also here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/Building_Mesa_from_source
Wiki article is outdated in the sense of building, but it gives an idea how to run things with such build.
Last edited by Shmerl on 24 April 2022 at 9:42 am UTC
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mr-victory Apr 25, 2022
They should release an stable version every SIX months, and not every year.They do, a new maintainence release is made every six months and versioned as x.0.y so next one will be 7.0.1 . And they bump up the first number every year.
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