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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:58AM
How is running Windows in a VM less trouble shooting? A VM stops neither malware, nor Windows Update changing settings to useless defaults.
If the answer is "you can just wipe the VM without touching the rest of the system, then we are back to the argument about a lot less setup headache. Because there is a lot of that every time one reinstalls Wiindows.
Of course Wine is not immune to malware, it's rare to hear people getting Wine infected, and the few cases I have heard about have been deliberate attempts. And the situation will get worse as compatibility gets better. But Wine IS immune to Windows Update, something that has caused a ton of problems lately, with updates that break Windows, good and bad updates bundled together in "rollup" updates, and even unauthorized updates to Windows "Surface Edition", aka. Windows 10.