CrossOver 19.0 Released - Ending Out 2019 With Better Microsoft Office Support On Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CrossOver 19.0 Released - Ending Out 2019 With Better Microsoft Office Support On Linux

CodeWeavers has announced the availability of CrossOver 19 for their Wine-based software for running Windows programs/applications/games on macOS and Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CodeWeavers-CrossOver-19

[clementhk]

I wonder if this means we don't need to have multi-arch OS anymore to run wine, don't need to install wine32 libs separately and everything will just work in a unified wine 64bit runtime?

[Jigglywiggly]

They say office compatibility has improved, but they don't seem to mention specifics. What exactly has gotten better?

[V1tol]

I wonder if this means we don't need to have multi-arch OS anymore to run wine, don't need to install wine32 libs separately and everything will just work in a unified wine 64bit runtime?

Yes, the changes were made for Catalina compatibility will profit also for Linux (for now Codeweavers say it is experimental). That means "drop 32-bit" problem won't affect Wine in the future

[Weasel]

Yes, the changes were made for Catalina compatibility will profit also for Linux (for now Codeweavers say it is experimental). That means "drop 32-bit" problem won't affect Wine in the future

It will, because it's slow and full of glitches.