For those who want to help with Wine development without contributing code, CodeWeavers host the Wine project and contribute to its development along with their own CrossOver product.
For those who've never heard of it:
CrossOver provides two main services on top of Wine. 1) CrossOver contains a series of hacks that allow some popular programs to run better in the short-term. 2) CrossOver provides a user-friendly shell so that you don’t need to use a terminal and text-based commands to run your Windows software on Mac or Linux.
Released yesterday, CrossOver 18.5 is a pretty huge upgrade as it pulls in the Wine 4.0 release (previously it used Wine 3.14) and also FAudio, the XAudio reimplementation for open platforms developed by Ethan Lee who now works with CodeWeavers. The actual changelog can be found here and the release announcement here.
I can't say I know anyone who uses CrossOver for games, but for software it might come in handy, like with this release adding some support for OneNote 2016 and support for the latest latest release of Office 365. Good to have options though of course and since they support Wine directly it's a good way to help.
They also put up a blog post (where the above quote is from) to help with those confused on the relationship between Wine, CrossOver and Proton.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
wintermute Mar 22, 2019
Quoting: KohlyKohlI've never been able to justify paying that much for what you get.
What you get is to help pay the wages of most of the regular contributors to Wine, I find that quite easy to justify (though I appreciate not everyone has the spare cash). For what it's worth they do have quite regular sales.
I use Crossover for some older games where stability has more benefits than being on the cutting edge.
Comandante Ñoñardo Mar 23, 2019
Quoting: MohandevirDoes the fact that CrossOver now integrates Wine 4.0 means that Proton is near from getting it too? Isn't Proton CrossOver based?Valve is working with Codeweavers for proton but it does not use any crossover code that is not in wine as far as I know, it uses wine, dxvk and some other opensource projects. Proton will be based on wine 4.0 or newer when its fits protons development schedule.
Last edited by Redface on 24 March 2019 at 12:37 am UTC
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