Roblox support is coming back to Wine on Linux

Good news for Roblox fans, as the game will soon start working in Wine again as the developers have been working to update it since the big breakage with the new client.

A few days ago on their developer forum, one of their staff members replied (you have to be signed in to read) noting "shoutout to the Grapejuice community - this one is for you". Grapejuice being a tool that configures Wine and Roblox together. The staff member also included a screenshot of Roblox running on Manjaro Linux:

Roblox has multiple version channels, and it seems you're actually able to play it right now with Wine on the "zintegration" or "zcanary" channel. Although you should really wait until it rolls out properly, because switching around channels can cause all sorts of issues (like getting stuck on a particular channel) because it's all in testing.

That same staff member did also note that "There will be an official announcement regarding unofficial support for Wine. As for an ETA, let’s just say soon™."

Just for science, testing it myself it does indeed work again when testing using the zcanary channel with the Vinegar wrapper for Roblox and Wine:

Pictured - BIG Paintball in Roblox on Kubuntu

Pictured - Pet Simulator in Roblox on Kubuntu

If you really want to try it out, again I wouldn't suggest so (really just wait until it hits stable Roblox), but it is possible if you use Vinegar linked above. You will need to switch it over to the zcanary update branch and use Vulkan, which you can do via this in terminal:

mkdir -p ~/.var/app/io.github.vinegarhq.Vinegar/config/vinegar/ && { echo "[player]"; echo "dxvk = false"; echo "renderer = \"Vulkan\""; echo "channel = \"zcanary\""; } >> ~/.var/app/io.github.vinegarhq.Vinegar/config/vinegar/config.toml

After that you'll be able to just login on the website, and run games or use the Vinegar Roblox App it gives you.