On Tue Mar 14 05:55:36 2023 +0000, Alex Henrie wrote:
I apologize, I meant no offense. I remember that Wine Staging was originally described as a "fork" and that that was a "good thing", but I can't find the email, or maybe I am remembering an in-person conversation at WineConf 2015. I guess whether Staging is a "fork" depends on your definition of "fork". I do remember conversations at WineConf where people said that Wine Staging is more committed to making things work for the sake of end users than mainline Wine is. I also remember nv*.dll being mentioned, and I got the impression that nothing like those patches in Staging would ever be considered acceptable in mainline. I may have misunderstood; please correct me if I am wrong. @danielzgtg In the end the decision on whether to include the change to SLOpen in mainline Wine or in Wine Staging is not up to me, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
The next step after Staging that I know of is Proton. I would not like to have to do that, and they focus on games not office suites anyway. Anything other than Wine itself is harder to install and get working. It's already hard to run Proton outside of Steam, and harder to get other tools used with Wine to work with it.