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Wine 2.0 released

posted by on Wednesday January 25 2017, @10:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-spell-windows-without-win dept.

rigrig writes:

The Wine team has announced that version 2.0 of the Windows compatibility layer has been released.

The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS.

[...] This is the first release made on the new time-based, annual release schedule. This implies that some features that are being worked on but couldn't be finished in time have been deferred to the next development cycle. This includes in particular the Direct3D command stream, the full HID support, the Android graphics driver, and message-mode pipes.

Do any soylentils still rely on Wine for that one irreplaceable application?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Wednesday January 25 2017, @10:36PM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Wednesday January 25 2017, @10:36PM (#458688)

    Gaming, with varying degrees of success. By far it's the single source of applications where high-performance requirements are pitiful when run on a VM*. I use it for whatever I can actually get working, and I have wineskin set up on the girlfriend's mac for Stick of Truth. I've had pretty good luck with popular, older games, but it's been disappointing on anything new or not very well known enough for anyone to have spent time trying to get it to work.

    * Okay, so niche applications that need direct access to GPU like bitcoin miners and stuff like market data systems can't run on VMs either. But a lot of those have linux and windows versions available.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday January 25 2017, @11:40PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Wednesday January 25 2017, @11:40PM (#458726) Journal

    > [...] applications that need direct access to GPU like bitcoin miners [...]

    Mining Bitcoin with GPUs is still a thing?

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 25 2017, @11:45PM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday January 25 2017, @11:45PM (#458729) Journal

      I know right. Haven't they moved on to quantum ASICKO cereal clusters yet?

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    • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday January 25 2017, @11:54PM

      by dyingtolive (952) on Wednesday January 25 2017, @11:54PM (#458733)

      Hey, it was the first mainstream example of a GPU being used for something other than gaming that came to mind.

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      • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Thursday January 26 2017, @06:51PM

        by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday January 26 2017, @06:51PM (#459046) Homepage Journal
        If there are still people doing it, you are not responsible for their cluelessness. :)
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