Wine 8.1 Released - Now Exposed As "Windows 10" For New Prefixes

[DMJC]

It'd be nice if WINE could finish off the old Windows 9x APIs. DirectX 4-6 applications still have some issues.

[Berniyh]

Or Cognac

Same thing, but more specific. Right now they call it wine, not Châteauneuf-Du Pape.

[kiffmet]

DMJC you can try DgVoodo2 in combination with Wine if old DX titles have issues.

[CochainComplex]

Same thing, but more specific. Right now they call it wine, not Châteauneuf-Du Pape.

Clos de l'Oratoire des Papes!!

[Berniyh]

That would make one crazy binary name.

[uid313]

Is it possible to select Windows 11 as an option for how Wine to present itself?

What motivated the change for changing Wine from presenting itself as Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? Is there any criteria?
Why doesn't it present itself as Windows 11 yet and what would be needed for it to do so?

[IanW]

Is it possible to select Windows 11 as an option for how Wine to present itself?

What motivated the change for changing Wine from presenting itself as Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? Is there any criteria?
Why doesn't it present itself as Windows 11 yet and what would be needed for it to do so?

It might be related to MS recently ending all support for Windows versions before 10.

[Old Grouch]

Or Cognac

Or Wine Marc 10.

[Weasel]

Is it possible to select Windows 11 as an option for how Wine to present itself?

What motivated the change for changing Wine from presenting itself as Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? Is there any criteria?
Why doesn't it present itself as Windows 11 yet and what would be needed for it to do so?

I like how Michael hyped up the literally least important change. How about just change it yourself? Just launch winecfg and there you go.

There's nothing special about this change other than it being the freaking default. Saves you 5 seconds of launching winecfg. Oh no.

Anyway it doesn't default to Win11 because many Win11 APIs are not implemented yet so they didn't want to risk breaking apps that check for it and try to use them.

[edwaleni]

Wine 8 has about the same value to me as Wine 3.2. Which today is very little. Every app I think is a worthy candidate to run there, can't.