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Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the come-and-get-it dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Soo, which version of Windows is 100% implement by demon+driver · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From my limited experience: if it comes to older Windows applications, the chances to get something to run properly might actually be higher under Wine than under a current Windows, and that was already true before 3.0. (And if something doesn't run, as was already said, there's still Virtual Box, VMware etc.)

  2. Re:Why wine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sadly, I just had my Windows 10 totally fsck on me a few days ago.

    In this particular instance, the "lock up" was because the game takes over full-screen mode and for whatever reason the game became unresponsive. I did CTRL-ALT-DEL and it gave me the options screen for logout/taskmanager/etc but even when starting the task manager the screen just went back to the game and the task manager was inaccessible. ALT-TAB would show the task manager running, but when selected Windows auto-switched right back to the game. The result was, after trying literally everything possible to kill the process from within, I had to force a reboot to finally get out of it.

    I have never had a similar experience on Ubuntu, though I've had my share of other bad experiences there too so I'm in no way a fan-boi for that OS.