Wine 6.17 Released With Better HiDPI Support For Built-In Apps

[cl333r]

Somewhat related but has anyone ever tried creating a Flatpak Wine Platform/SDK? There seem to be some older efforts but they seem abandoned. I just feel that it would be preferable to the current state of affairs with many programs, where its "this will work only on a specific version of wine, no newer and no older, with X Y and Z winetricks applied".

As a Wine user I kinda like it's so complicated and has many builds (including Proton), some would say it makes you bi-polar, but I'm not bi-polar, I'm "Bi-Winning", I win here, I win there.
Give it a try, and remember, can't is the cancer of happen.

[V1tol]

Anyone know how many different versions/ways to run Wine there are? My understanding is that sometimes the mainline version won't run stuff but then you switch the Steam Wine and it works. It's very confusing. How many different blends of Wine are there?

Custom WINE builds based on Proton patches to replace system one. Or use Lutris as WINE runner. Just some examples (used both of them for some time):

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases

https://github.com/Frogging-Family/wine-tkg-git/releases

[Linuxxx]

Anyone know how many different versions/ways to run Wine there are? My understanding is that sometimes the mainline version won't run stuff but then you switch the Steam Wine and it works. It's very confusing. How many different blends of Wine are there?

For gaming on Linux in general, it's best practice to just stick with Proton (or Proton-GE for faster updates), since these versions contain out-of-tree patches benefitting games that upstream WINE maybe will never merge.

[iskra32]

Somewhat related but has anyone ever tried creating a Flatpak Wine Platform/SDK? There seem to be some older efforts but they seem abandoned. I just feel that it would be preferable to the current state of affairs with many programs, where its "this will work only on a specific version of wine, no newer and no older, with X Y and Z winetricks applied".

[linner]

Anyone know how many different versions/ways to run Wine there are? My understanding is that sometimes the mainline version won't run stuff but then you switch the Steam Wine and it works. It's very confusing. How many different blends of Wine are there?

[tildearrow]

HiDPI! 👍

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 6.17 Released With Better HiDPI Support For Built-In Apps

Wine 6.17 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release as we move closer towards the Wine 7.0 release around the start of the new year...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-6.17-Released