I had been using Winehq Staging 5.12 on Debian Stretch. Everything worked. A relatively new application here or there wouldn't, but I could live with that. Everybody told me, upgrade, upgrade, upgrade, you should upgrade, you have to upgrade, you must upgrade, how can you not upgrade, omg upgrade already.
I upgraded. Now I run Winehq Stable 9.0. And many applications won't run anymore. This is extremely disappointing. I actually believed that my experience with Wine would be better after such a big version jump. But it's absolutely worse.
What did my old installation have that the new one doesn't? Is there some way to find that out? I still have the old installation on another disk. Is there some way to compare and discover what is missing in the new situation?
Wine became worse for me
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DarkShadow44
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Re: Wine became worse for me
Wine updates can unfortunately break working programs. Please report such cases at https://bugs.winehq.org/
Re: Wine became worse for me
Hi, also keep in mind
- that you ran previously Winehq Staging 5.12, so for a more fair comparison you might want to upgrade to Staging-9.0 (instead of vanilla 9.0). Staging works around a couple of known bugs so that might be a reason that your apps now fail.
- (Very) old wine versions used to set default windows version to Windows 7, which probably just triggers less bugs then setting it to windows 10, like recent versions do. So maybe you could check what windows version was set where your apps ran fine.
- that you ran previously Winehq Staging 5.12, so for a more fair comparison you might want to upgrade to Staging-9.0 (instead of vanilla 9.0). Staging works around a couple of known bugs so that might be a reason that your apps now fail.
- (Very) old wine versions used to set default windows version to Windows 7, which probably just triggers less bugs then setting it to windows 10, like recent versions do. So maybe you could check what windows version was set where your apps ran fine.
