Wine 8.0.2 Released

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10 pointsfreedude4 comments

How good is wine these days? I remember it from its earliest days and haven’t used it much since. But so grateful it exists.

Proton uses wine and has revolutuonised video games industry. Most major games now run on Linux because of proton. Steam deck is runs on proton

So what's the major version bump about? The "World Wine News" wasn't particularly useful.

https://www.winehq.org/news/ is a lot more helpful. It tells you two things:

* 8.0.2 is just a patch release; the 8.x branch has been running forward for 8 months to reach 8.14

* the real 8.0 feature list is in https://www.winehq.org/news/2022120901, the 8.0-rc1 article from Nov 2022