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Wine 9.0 is now available (gitlab.winehq.org)
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[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 224 points 10 months ago

All modules that call a Unix library contain WoW64 thunks to enable calling the 64-bit Unix library from 32-bit PE code. This means that it is possible to run 32-bit Windows applications on a purely 64-bit Unix installation. This is called the new WoW64 mode, as opposed to the old WoW64 mode where 32-bit applications run inside a 32-bit Unix process.

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[-] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 95 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So in the future no need to install 32 bit packages of wine in a 64 system??? 👀

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 102 points 10 months ago

Correcto. Which means Steam will probably drop 32 bit libs soon. Which means Ubuntu will stop shipping 32 libs. The era is truly coming to an end

[-] StefanT@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Let's call it "soonish". The old proton versions still need 32 bit libs if they do not backport the feature.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago

Old Proton builds probably won't backport this (unless it's completely isolated, idk the code layout of Wine). But are old Proton builds still necessary? Occasionally there's regressions, but are there really any games that require like a 2 year old Proton build?

[-] addie@feddit.uk 20 points 10 months ago

There are, but it's complicated. Doom (2016) for instance - it doesn't handle the very large Vulkan swap chain that's possible on some modern graphics cards, crashes on start-up. Someone patched Proton around that time so that Doom would start; the patch was later reverted since it broke other games. Other games based off of that engine - couple of Wolfensteins, Doom Eternal - have the problem fixed in the binaries, and so run on up-to-date Proton, but depending on your hardware, only a few specific, old, versions of Proton, will do for Doom.

Regressions get fixed - that's okay. Buggy behaviour which depended on regressions that got fixed - that's a problem.

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Come on Steam, show those 32-bit libs the door!

Not the political kind. The shared object kind.

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[-] Vash63@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

What does this have to do with rust?

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[-] moon@lemmy.cafe 151 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

codeweavers the true gigachad of Linux

they managed to make their anti-microsoft crusade a sustainable and profitable venture

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 50 points 10 months ago

Them and also collabora seem to be doing an amazing job!

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 19 points 10 months ago

Heavy: killing you is full-time job now!

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 131 points 10 months ago

Finally, a version that rhymes.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Wine is not an emulniner?

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[-] heartfelthumburger@sopuli.xyz 81 points 10 months ago

Finally, native Wayland support! Looking forward to when proton is updated with this. Good job to all the developers!

[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 41 points 10 months ago

Wine nine you say? 🧐

[-] aksdb@feddit.de 14 points 10 months ago

They should have code-named this release "Brooklyn".

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[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 41 points 10 months ago

Ooo, native Wayland support, now only about half my software will be running through xwayland once Proton is updated as well.

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[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still very new to Linux. I have Wine 8 installed, currently just to run one application for one of my games. Should I bother to update to 9 if my current setup is working? I’m still adjusting to the FOSS environment and haven’t quite figured out whether or not I should always update to the latest and greatest just because I can.

[-] mundane@feddit.nu 40 points 10 months ago

If it works and you are still figuring things out, I suggest not taking specific action right now. Use your package manager to keep your system up to date and it will deal with this in due time.

[-] version_unsorted@lemmy.ml 27 points 10 months ago

A lot of the time the version of wine will cause issues with the application, so if you have something working, stick with it.

It would be worthwhile to look into a wine prefix manager like lutris or bottles for gaming. Regular apps can benefit also, but I am not up to speed on anything not for gaming.

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