Wine 10.0 released

[Posted January 22, 2025 by corbet]

Version 10.0 of the Wine Windows compatibility layer is out. "This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000 individual changes". Those changes include full support for the Arm64EC architecture, better high-DPI display support, Wayland enabled by default, and more.

Not quite fully Wayland yet

Posted Jan 24, 2025 23:25 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

Wayland is "enabled" by default but Wayland is not yet the default.

How does Wine fare running MS Office these days?

Posted Jan 27, 2025 11:16 UTC (Mon) by epk (guest, #174765) [Link] (2 responses)

I have not kept track of Wine for a number of years. I remember that, about a decade back, it was difficult/problematic to run MS Office on Wine. What's the status today? Looking at the "Apps Database" on WineHQ, I see notes from 4 or 5 years ago, and a detailed record which is probably older.

I realize that's not the only, or even the main, metric for evaluating Wine, but it's still a key app (or suite of apps) for Windows users and one that people using other OSes may want in order to exactly replicate the way an OOXML document looks when opened. (The LibreOffice input filters are pretty good, but still far from perfect.)

How does Wine fare running MS Office these days?

Posted Jan 27, 2025 15:09 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

I believe the "standard" these days is to use Office 365 (or whatever X 365 it is part of now…the names seem to shift anytime Copilot touches another product) which is web-based (and, of course, subscription-based).

How does Wine fare running MS Office these days?

Posted Jan 27, 2025 15:46 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Which is of course pants, and quite possibly verboten in a security context ...

Plus iirc some stuff doesn't work in 365 (I think tied up with macros), but works fine running locally.

Cheers,
Wol

Garmin Express

Posted Jan 27, 2025 22:31 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

The only reason I have Windows on one ancient laptop is to update the maps on my Garmin GPS; you need to run a Windows program called "Garmin Express"

I was extremely excited to see it come up properly on Wine 10; that has never happened on earlier versions. But alas, when I connected the GPS, it did not see it. I have to do some research into how to get Wine programs to see arbitrary USB devices, but maybe I can finally ditch the Windows partition.