Wine 10.6 · wine / wine · GitLab
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The Wine development release 10.6 is now available. What's new in this release: New lexer in Command Processor. PBKDF2 algorithm in...
    • NoiseColor English
      4•3 days ago

      Cool. I thought it’s all Steam right now? Is that a stupid question?

      • @Tenkard@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14•3 days ago

        Steam uses Proton under the hood which is based on wine. From the repo

        Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this.

        • @Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
          13•3 days ago

          I wouldn’t really call it a fork from my understanding, but rather a (downstream) distribution. But maybe those are just semantics

          • VictorEnglish
            3•3 days ago

            Semantics make a difference where you least expect it to sometimes. Good to be correct, even if it seemingly doesn’t matter in the context. 👌

      • @Screen_Shatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•3 days ago

        You may also want to run non-steam games. I’m still new to linux and haven’t tried that yet but I think I will need to for my GoG library.

        • @DepressedMan@reddthat.comOPEnglish
          1•2 days ago

          +1 ,but you can always add external games to Steam. I tried it once, and it worked. However, I prefer GOG over Steam because of its DRM-free policy and also prefer clean Wine over Proton, as I can report bugs directly to Wine bugtracker. I have some Steam games installed on Wine. Yes, I had to first install Steam inside Wine prefix and only after that install the games. Additionally, there is always pirated software, which I won’t add to Steam.

      • @_____@lemm.eeEnglish
        4•3 days ago

        I use wine for FFXIV. proton kinda works but not for my case. Certain mods use a bleeding edge version of dotnet and this version is not present in proton.