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What were the early days of WINE like? (self.linuxquestions)

submitted 3 weeks ago by daggermoon to c/[email protected]

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Did it have more or less compatibility than it does now? Was it difficult to use? I started using Linux around 2016 and switched to it fully in 2020. In all my time I have only used WINE for gaming as most Windows desktop applications I have tried don't really work, not that I'd want to use many anyway. Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm just curious to hear peoples experiences.

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[–] ArbiterXero 26 points 3 weeks ago

Wine used to involve a lot of black magic and trading configs to get things to work.

With the right incantations, and some luck and a few DLL replacements, you could make things mostly work.

3-D rendering was a shit show earlier on. You just didn’t even try. DirectX was everywhere and unusable. It was probably a slow march, but it felt like a sudden boom when 3D started working and suddenly 2/3 of your games/apps would work natively with a smaller config/spell.

Nothing like the lengthy spell castings of early wine. I summon thee brood wars!