The open source Wine project—sometimes stylized WINE, for Wine Is Not an Emulator—has become an important tool for companies and individuals who want to make Windows apps and games run on operating ...

Wine translates Windows system calls to make apps run on Linux, and is supported by a broad community. Bottles organizeWwine ...

If you use Linux and occasionally run Windows applications, whether via native Wine or through gaming layers like Proton, you’ll appreciate what just dropped in Wine 10.19. Released November 14 2025, ...

I ported a lot of my windows-only programs over to my Linux build a couple of years ago, and they've been running mostly fine. Some loss of very minor functionality in configuration settings was the ...

Wine, the software that Microsoft has partially credited with making Windows 10 Windows Subsystem for Linux possible, has been updated with over 7,400 changes. Wine is a compatibility layer, designed ...

In a nutshell: The Wine community has released a new version of the eponymous software, an essential for gamers using a Linux-based OS as well as for the Steam Deck console from Valve. Wine 7.16 ...

As free and open source software continues to become more powerful and more prevalent, there’s less and less need to choose anything else. It’s not at all surprising, for example, to see the recent ...

The chains are loosening. DirectX still binds many PC games to Windows. Now, CodeWeavers expects CrossOver to support DirectX 11 by the end of the year, with Wine gaining compatibility shortly ...

Wine is a compatibility layer that makes it possible to run some Windows applications on non-Windows operating systems including Linux and macOS. So naturally some folks have been trying for years to ...