Posted on 01/24/2017 1:26:33 PM PST by markomalley
A brand new stable release of Wine, the Windows compatibility programme, is now available to download.
Wine 2.0 — yes, 2.0 — follows more than a year of development effort and marks the start of a new timed-based release cadence.
Various miscellaneous changes make up Wine 2.0, ranging from support for Unicode 9.0; better HiDPI scaling; improved clipboard behaviour; an updated Gecko engine; and adjustments to joystick button mapping and force feedback effects.
For gamers Wine 2.0 implements, fixes and polishes a slew of Direct3D 10/11 features, including more shader instructions, sRGB read/write support, array textures and so on, plus there are tweaks to DirectX support.
On the audio side there’s GStreamer 1.0 support, DirectSound down-mixing to stereo.
Other highlights include support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the ability to run 64-bit applications on something called macOS, say the team in their announcement.
Wine 2.0 is available to download from WineHQ right now — but you’ll need to compile it by hand.
Chances are you (like me) are too lazy to do that. Instead, to install Wine 2.0 on Ubuntu you can make use of the official Wine builds PPA.
First run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
Once added to your software sources you can can upgrade or install the latest stable release using:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine-staging
Is openoffice not quite compatible yet?
Very much so.
Mostly, from what I've seen. But I've run into issues with Calc every now and again, particularly when the spreadsheet uses some VBA.
OpenOffice does not have a real Access alternative, and the spreadsheet chokes on the big stuff.
Can WINE-2.0 be setup to run in addition to a current WINE setup in case things don’t work out immediately?
I still have games that won’t run on a virtual box.
How many bottles of wine do I need to drink for this to work?
Red or white?
I'll be sure to tell grandma to do this so she can download pictures of her grandkids and cooking recipes.
This is why LINUX is not the system that runs the world...
Decades on, and there is still not a user-friendly interface
any word on photoshop compatibility? I could not get photoshop working under previous wine- is there a list of games that can be run on it yet? Tried a few games that were claimed to be compatible, they never ran very well- so i ended up resorting ot dual booting to run windows 7 for photoshop and games-
Would be nice to not have to dual boot though- (Yes, pgotoshop can run in virtual machine- but it’s slow and has quirks that slow my processing procedures down too much- I do have in installed in VM, but only fire it up for very basic photo fixes- for more intense work i have to dual boot into windows and run it proper)
I’ve tried Open Office off and on a few times.
Without fail it will crash.
How does Wine work? Actually runs the apps more or less natively in Linux or does it create a sort of Windows VM?
It would be nice to know whether Microsoft Internet Explorer is supported. I am not really interested in running IE on Linux, but I know of a bunch of people who would like to run Logos Bible software on Linux and it uses some of the network infrastructure of IE to run. Thus, if IE runs, it might work.
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install systemback- take a snapshot of your system, install the wine 2.0- if it doesn’t work, revert to before you installed it- easy peasy- but of course you’ll need to learn how to install systemback- it’s not too difficult- there are instructions online-
Linux users- I highly recommend systemback as a snapshot backup program AND as a system backup which can create an .ISO of your current system and restore incase anythign ever goes wrong (although this system restore option is a little tricky- i can confirm it works very well- and the system backup was actually pretty quick- under 45 minutes if I remember right- It was super nice reinstalling it from the ISO and havign all my settings already how i liked em- and programs, etc- but be aware, the process for a whole system backup to .ISO is a bit tricky- and convoluted- but doable-)
WINE creates a virtual Windows layer allowing Windows applications to run in a Windows VM in Linux.
Far from perfect because the Windows source code is proprietary and making applications run under WINE is often hit and miss.
I’ve never had trouble with it other than few quirks within spreadsheets but then I don’t use it too intensely - i use postgres or mysql instead of access.
[ Is openoffice not quite compatible yet? ]
I think openoffice runs natively on Linux anyways...
It does. I meant compatible with MS Office such that one would not need MS Office and could do everything they need with OpenOffice.
The issue comes in where you take a complex spreadsheet (like financial analysis ones for work) that were created in Excel and try to run them in Calc. Agreed that ones created in Calc generally work well. It's just the interoperability that's the issue.
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