Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver

Wine 9.4 is out today as a rather notable bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.4-Released

[m4tx]

Interesting to see Desktop Window Manager on the list. Does it refer to the Windows window manager (which is an internal component)? Why would anyone want to run it through Wine?

[rmfx]

Can't wait to not rely on Windows at all anymore because it just works on Linux.

[Jaxad0127]

Interesting to see Desktop Window Manager on the list. Does it refer to the Windows window manager (which is an internal component)? Why would anyone want to run it through Wine?

Probably: https://www.howtogeek.com/1119/what-...is-it-running/

Wine does have a builtin dwmapi.dll, but it hasn't had an update since November. So this looks to be support for the real thing.

[Vermilion]

Interesting to see Desktop Window Manager on the list. Does it refer to the Windows window manager (which is an internal component)? Why would anyone want to run it through Wine?

The bug report mentions dwmapi which is a component of wine.

[NeoMorpheus]

Can't wait to not rely on Windows at all anymore because it just works on Linux.

Same here, but sadly, we have ways to for this to happen.

one thing that i rarely see is devices firmware updaters, like this: https://kb.cablematters.com/index.ph...ry&EntryID=147


until we get those ported or released at the same time, we are boned.

[Nth_man]

Same here, but sadly, we have ways to for this to happen.

one thing that i rarely see is devices firmware updaters, like this: https://kb.cablematters.com/index.ph...ry&EntryID=147

until we get those ported or released at the same time, we are boned.

"By numbers, the largest group of people are using Linux computers are at work, so the Dell Precision, XPS, Lenovo PCs and ThinkPads. There are a few models for vendors like ASUS, Acer and Gigabyte (where whey want to see a thin/server SKU board to a big customer that demands LVFS support) and there are updates for SSDs from vendors like Samsung/Micron/etc with specific Lenovo/Dell SKUs -- but it's really up to the vendors to care about Linux users. Which means, buying hardware that advertises fwupd/LVFS support and not giving money to companies that literally don't care about Linux users.

Notably, most of the same vendors that don't care about LVFS-provided updates are also the same ones with a terrible firmware security track record, so make your choices accordingly. We can't legally ship updates without the vendor uploading them to us and giving us permission to distribute. Buy stuff listed here: <https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/> and you'll be helping a lot."
-- hughsie on https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1432861-fwupd-1-9-11-released-with-support-for-new-algoltek-luxshare-usb-devices?p=1432901#post1432901

[kiffmet]

For some reason, wine 9.4 refuses to compile for me on Gentoo x64, unless I deactivate Wayland support for the package.
I get the error:

EGL 64-bit development files not found, the Wayland driver won't support OpenGL

despite all the necessary libraries and headers being present on my system (I checked the configure.ac file).

This is just a nitpick, because I use prebuilt Proton for most stuff and my system WINE install is kind of a fallback, which can also use XWayland for all I care.

[luno]

"By numbers, the largest group of people are using Linux computers are at work, so the Dell Precision, XPS, Lenovo PCs and ThinkPads. There are a few models for vendors like ASUS, Acer and Gigabyte (where whey want to see a thin/server SKU board to a big customer that demands LVFS support) and there are updates for SSDs from vendors like Samsung/Micron/etc with specific Lenovo/Dell SKUs -- but it's really up to the vendors to care about Linux users. Which means, buying hardware that advertises fwupd/LVFS support and not giving money to companies that literally don't care about Linux users.

Notably, most of the same vendors that don't care about LVFS-provided updates are also the same ones with a terrible firmware security track record, so make your choices accordingly. We can't legally ship updates without the vendor uploading them to us and giving us permission to distribute. Buy stuff listed here: <https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/> and you'll be helping a lot."
-- hughsie on https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1432861-fwupd-1-9-11-released-with-support-for-new-algoltek-luxshare-usb-devices?p=1432901#post1432901

any common am5 motherboard which supports lvfs ? I am thinking of buying next motherboard with coreboot and lvfs support

[poncho524]

But can it run iTunes yet?