Category: Wine

One of the big topics of discourse in the Linux gaming sphere recently has been Tim Sweeney's statement on porting Fortnite to the Steam Deck, where Sweeney argues that Linux would be too difficult of a target and the market not big enough to warrant the amount of resources it would take to bring all of Fortnite on the platform.

Looking for a job in the Linux space? Now is your chance! CodeWeavers, the company that sponsors development on the Wine compatibility layer and works with Valve on Steam Play Proton are hiring again.

Now that the dust has settled on the bottle of Wine 7.0, the biweekly development releases have begun and Wine 7.1 is out with new features and bug fixes.

Managing various games and applications installed on Linux using Wine can be a hassle, and while there's stuff like Lutris available perhaps Bottles might be a better dedicated option.

Just over a year since the last major version bump, Alexandre Julliard has announced the final release of Wine 7.0.

ProtonUp-Qt is the fantastic and simple way to download and upgrade the Linux compatibility tools Proton-GE, Luxtorpeda, Boxtron or Roberta for Steam and works with both Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher too.

DXVK, the Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Wine / Proton has version 1.9.3 out now.

To end the year the open source consulting firm Collabora, who often works with Valve, has written up a fresh post with a video to show off their Wayland driver for Wine.

The Wine team has put out a second Release Candidate for what will eventually turn into a Wine 7.0 stable release in early 2022.

Despite Luna originally using Windows for Amazon's game streaming service, it appears they may be moving over to Linux and they're looking to hire people to work on Proton / Wine and give back to open source.

Bottles isn't exactly a new Linux application but it's one I had only heard about recently. It's been advancing a lot in the last year and it's really looking great.

Another year of work has nearly come and gone with the biweekly development releases of Wine, so a new main release is on the way with Wine 7.0 seeing a first Release Candidate.

Another two weeks and more fixes coming in, the Wine 6.23 release is officially out now with new features and bug fixes.

The Wine hackers continue to be exceptionally busy trying to catch up with Windows and a new development release is out with Wine 6.22.

More fixes and new features are ready for another development release with Wine 6.21 going out, the compatibility layer for Windows games and applications.

Just before the weekend landed the Wine team released Wine 6.20 as the latest development version with all the latest code.

The Wine 6.19 development release is out now following more weeks of hacking away trying to create the best possible Windows compatibility layer.

The latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine for running Windows games and applications on Linux is out now with Wine 6.18.

Today, Easy Anti-Cheat from Epic Games / Epic Online Services has officially announced a full expansion for Linux including native builds and Wine + Proton. This is big for Linux Gaming and the Steam Deck.

DXVK, one of the major parts of Steam Play Proton that translates Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan has a new release out and there's plenty of nice fixes.