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Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com)
prisoninmate shares a report from Softpedia: The Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) project has been updated today to version 3.0, a major release that ends 2017 in style for the open-source compatibility layer capable of running Windows apps and games on Linux-based and UNIX-like operating systems. Almost a year in the works, Wine 3.0 comes with amazing new features like an Android driver that lets users run Windows apps and games on Android-powered machines, Direct3D 11 support enabled by default for AMD Radeon and Intel GPUs, AES encryption support on macOS, Progman DDE support, and a task scheduler. In addition, Wine 3.0 introduces the ability to export registry entries with the reg.exe tool, adds various enhancements to the relay debugging and OLE data cache, as well as an extra layer of event support in MSHTML, Microsoft's proprietary HTML layout engine for the Windows version of the Internet Explorer web browser. You can read the full list of features and download Wine 3.0 from WineHQ's website.
Game crash in Windows:
- full system lockup
- hard reboot
- inevitable data loss
- no recourse
Game crash in Wine:
- laugh at the foolishness of Microsoft slaves
- kill Wine and restart it
Another alternative to prevent games from crashing the OS all the time is to upgrade from Windows 95. Either that or stop spouting outdated notions of what life is like running Windows.
I think I just threw up in the back of my mouth. I am absolutely not an M$ astroturfer. I'm a big fan of Gimp. I can install it anywhere for free and it'll do some things faster than Photoshop. But I still have to go back to photoshop occasionally for some of the advanced features. And in Lightroom, it's a matter of "right click, edit in Photoshop".
I check out the "best Lightroom alternatives" a couple times a year. Open source Lightroom alternatives tend to do really well for operations of basic-to-medium complexity. I do photography as a profession, and basic-to-medium often isn't good enough. Not to mention, the catalog needs to work well with a quarter million photos. On the plus side, raw support is pretty good with free alternatives. So maybe some day, and I'm really looking forward to that day. But not today.
The other thing is, I have an investment in Lightroom categorizing the aforesaid quarter million photos, so a migration path would be necessary. (Which some products have.) And finally, I know how to use Lightroom, and would have to learn the new tool. And, I have a midi controller with motorized sliders bound to the most used Lightroom controls, and that would have to carry over too.
It's not a simple problem. Many of the pieces are there, but not quite all. I'd be more than happy to keep spending my $10 a month to Adobe if I could work entirely on, say, Mint instead of Winders.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.