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Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new
21 August 2023 at 1:57 pm UTC

Quoting: mrdeathjrAlmost forget in this mode wine64 binary dont exist, is only wine binary but run both 32 and 64bits windows apps

Oh, that's nice. I was waiting for it to happen. Good to see that.

Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new
21 August 2023 at 6:42 am UTC

Quoting: GroganFinally... I hate building Wine twice.

Oh, so it is easy to build WoW64 Wine now? Before this process was so convoluted that I never bothered doing it when I needed to build it.

OBS Studio 30.0 Beta 1 released supporting Intel QSV on Linux
18 August 2023 at 5:32 pm UTC

Still waiting for AV1 hardware encoding support in OBS.

Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition gets a GOG release and 75% off
18 August 2023 at 5:17 pm UTC

Just got it. Never played it before, but I've heard it's good.

AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux
14 August 2023 at 4:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

QuoteAs a recent convert over to team AMD GPU with a Radeon 6800 XT

Congrats! You decided not to get the latest RDNA 3 cards?

Quake II Remastered shadow dropped, Playable on Steam Deck
11 August 2023 at 7:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: PlintslîchoIt's already available at GOG.com as well. It's only just called Quake II .

It's also given for free you already had the game there.

Star Labs announced the compact Byte Mk II PC
14 July 2023 at 6:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

Any good mini PCs with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS? All I see are some poorly supported Chinese companies like Beelink and Minisforum.

Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements
12 July 2023 at 5:23 pm UTC

Quoting: whizseIt's not hooked up yet.

This is the missing bit needed for the waylanddrv driver to be loaded and used instead of winex11:
https://gitlab.collabora.com/alf/wine/-/commit/4db0008a36fd424cac274447d8b4517d8b8055aa
It has yet to be merged in upstream Wine.

Applying that works. It's just that other interesting bits, like actually interacting with a Wayland window have yet to be merged!

I see, thanks for the pointer. No rush to test it then.

Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements
12 July 2023 at 5:32 am UTC Likes: 1

Just tried in the Debian build, no dice either:

00fc:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
00fc:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly."