https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48365
Bug ID: 48365 Summary: On every update wine mess up everything; reset folders, setting, forget every installed program. Product: Wine Version: unspecified Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: rencer@euromail.hu Distribution: ---
OS: Manjaro 18.1.4 64bit Wine version: various
Every time there is an update or somthing, Wine "reboots" (or whatever it is doing) it's prefix folder. Because of this, every single time ALL SETTINGS that I changed in winecfg are reset to default and everything I installed are "gone", Wine doesn't see anything after this. Like it is a freshly created wine prefix without any change or anything installed in it. The softwares that I installed before are stay there they won't deleted, just wine doesn't see them, like they aren't installed.
Because of this every time I have to reinstall and reconfigure everything.
I'm using Lutris to configure and run games, and first I thought this bug is in Lutris. I tried to find a solution for this unbearable behaviour, and I find out this is not a bug in Lutris. Wine that doing this stange thing and not Lutris. With Lutris I can easily switch between different wine versions. It doesn't metter if I have the latest or older wine version installed, or using custom wine version, they all effected by this thing. It doesn't metter that I installed the different wine versions to different prefixes; when I run a game that uses that wine version, the given Wine prefix is reset and I have to reinstall everything.