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Wine 9.0 is now available (gitlab.winehq.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still very new to Linux. I have Wine 8 installed, currently just to run one application for one of my games. Should I bother to update to 9 if my current setup is working? I’m still adjusting to the FOSS environment and haven’t quite figured out whether or not I should always update to the latest and greatest just because I can.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago

    If it works and you are still figuring things out, I suggest not taking specific action right now. Use your package manager to keep your system up to date and it will deal with this in due time.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A lot of the time the version of wine will cause issues with the application, so if you have something working, stick with it.

    It would be worthwhile to look into a wine prefix manager like lutris or bottles for gaming. Regular apps can benefit also, but I am not up to speed on anything not for gaming.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Thanks for the advice! The application I’m using in Wine is Elite Dangerous Market Connector, nota game itself but a small helper app for the Elite Dangerous game. According to the git page, you can get it running from source with Python, but I wasn’t quite skilled enough to get that working.

    As far as my actual games go, those seem to all run fine through Steam/Heroic Games Launcher with Proton GE edition, which as I understand it incorporates Wine somehow…? I’m not sure of the specifics, but I assumed Wine in that context would get updated with Proton eventually.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As a heads up, EDMC runs natively on Linux well, or at least it did the last time I used it. See https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConnector/wiki/Installation-&-Setup#linux-with-steam-play

    Since you've got it running in wine just fine, I personally wouldn't change anything, but if you have issues in the future, you can try that.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Right, those are the instructions I tried to follow, but had issues in the “running from source” process. I did eventually get it running, but I’d get errors and nothing would work once I tried to start adding the plugins I wanted.

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