Wine 5.16 Released With Support For AVX Registers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 5.16 Released With Support For AVX Registers

Wine 5.16 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release leading up to next year's Wine 6.0...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-5.16-Released

[andre30correia]

people using macos really use wine? I have my doubts about that

[Mishosan]

people using macos really use wine? I have my doubts about that

Not many, I imagine. But there are people who run GNU/Linux on Macbooks and iMacs et cetera.

[Morty]

people using macos really use wine? I have my doubts about that

Why? Is your doubts becouse you think Mac user mostly are posers not needing much in the way og applications? Or are you under the illusjon that Mac users have all the applications they will ever need om macos?

[schmidtbag]

people using macos really use wine? I have my doubts about that

I think most Mac users use Crossover.

[dragorth]

people using macos really use wine? I have my doubts about that

Not a Mac user anymore, but I did use wine in the form of the different wine bottler formats that are available. There is a huge community working on bottling different games with specific versions of wine and settings/installed software to make the game work.

[andre30correia]

Why? Is your doubts becouse you think Mac user mostly are posers not needing much in the way og applications? Or are you under the illusjon that Mac users have all the applications they will ever need om macos?

I think mac users can't use things like wine, most of them don't have the knowoage

[Mario Junior]

>support for avx x86
Nice! Now is just wait for avx2 support too.

[carewolf]

>support for avx x86
Nice! Now is just wait for avx2 support too.

It is the same registers.

[Michael_S]

I think mac users can't use things like wine, most of them don't have the knowoage

MacOS is a hugely popular developer platform, most of my sysadmin and software developer coworkers run Macs. So sure, the gamers among them know and use Wine.