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Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead)

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2023 was a great year for the Wayland driver for Wine, but our work is not yet done.

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/me stil trying to get MS Office working under Wine.. But this Wine under Wayland is great news! I'm the developer of WineGUI so I'm in!

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- I'm assuming you probably already know since you're making WineGUI, but older versions of Office (particularly Office 2010 32bit) are pretty simple to get working. Just need to install some dependencies with Winetricks.
  
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  I just realized that 2010 was 14 years ago...
  
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I'm impressed how well wine-wayland already works. Some games still have issues with mouse locking, at least Overwatch doesn't register the at all. But as they said, bugs will be fixed over time.

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- I have issues with game resolution, when using Wine-Wayland the only resolution available is the one already set for my display, which renders FSR completely useless. As well as this little cursor render bug that sticks a frozen windows cursor on the screen, though I've been able to work around this.
  
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Are Wine apps ran isolated? Because we basically have no viruses on Linux, but I imagine running random of course legally obtained games may be very risky

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- No, the Linux filesystem is usually mounted as Z: in wine. Sandboxing through e.g. flatpak/bubblewrap with permissions set to only allow access to ~/Games should protect from many viruses.
  
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  Yes, but the virus will still run and make a damage around.
  
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Maybe once it's ready I'll get my distro to package the staging patches version. I have no way of testing it because my game needs staging patches

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- I'm on 9.0 staging and can use wine with Wayland, but not everything works, window bars etc look somewhat off and some games don't start at all, like Stardew Valley. Other games I tried failed to hide the cursor. Others worked just fine.
  
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  How do you make wine run without Xwayland? Just wondering if you could point me to some resource
  
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