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https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.11

Release notes

The Wine development release 9.11 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • C++ exception handling on ARM platforms.
  • More DPI Awareness support improvements.
  • Various bug fixes.
  • lemmy_99c4zb3e3@reddthat.comOP
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    5 months ago

    Have you ever used ReactOS? And tried to run something on it? I did, and it wasn’t a pleasant experience. Maybe it’s better now. I tried it three years ago. For me, ReactOS is just a toy with no useful applications. I know that ReactOS and Wine share a lot of common technologies, code or something, so they’re not competing projects, but rather they are making something good together. I doubt that these things will work on ReactOS but won’t on Wine.

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      5 months ago

      Have you ever used ReactOS? And tried to run something on it? I did, and it wasn’t a pleasant experience

      Yes, I did, multiple times and yes, it isn’t pleasant but Wine isn’t either.

      I doubt that these things will work on ReactOS but won’t on Wine.

      The thing is that there’s already a bunch of stuff that works fine in ReactOS but is still broken in Wine, particularly old Win32 APIs around since Windows 95 that should’ve been fixed by now.

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        4 months ago

        it isn’t pleasant but Wine isn’t either.

        Yes, but wine in general is simpler. ReactOS isn’t a ‘functional’ system, so you either have a dual-boot or virtual machine. It doesn’t compose well with your main system. Have you tried Bottles? A very simple and good-looking gtk frontend for Wine. They have a powerful default runner: “soda” .

        The thing is that there’s already a bunch of stuff that works fine in ReactOS but is still broken in Wine, particularly old Win32 APIs around since Windows 95 that should’ve been fixed by now.

        I didn’t know that. I used ReactOS very little and was very disappointed with it. Maybe that’s why I have a skewed view. However, some time has passed; maybe it’s better now.

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          4 months ago

          Yes, I did try bottles and soda with the same results. This is something low level that isn’t properly implemented or implemented at all.