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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by a9h74j on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:20PM (#32475539)
> Every new release of wine breaks it.

Is there any way to easily choose which Wine version you use for compatiblity? Multiple Wine versions without VMs etc?

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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by LtWorf on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:25PM (#32475599)
Steam lets you do that, but I think it's a global setting and not per game.

Debian normally keeps 2 versions of wine in the repositories, but if none of those 2 work, you're out of luck.

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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by Kaze404 on Monday August 15, 2022 @06:31PM (#32476342)
> if none of those 2 work, you're out of luck

That's not true. There are multiple tools for managing multiple versions of Wine and Wine-related tools for gaming, the oldest one being PlayOnLinux. Lutris is the most widely used one, and works great in my experience.

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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by kupiakos on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:03PM (#32477426)
This is wrong. Steam lets you choose a Proton (Wine) version per-game.
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