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.