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fluffybucktsnekyesterday at 9:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Those issues seem othorgonal to stable ABI issue from OP, specially the OpenGL one (that is more like a hardware incompatibility issue). When apps fail to run due to Wine updates, they are considered bugs to be fixed. On the native side, apps may break becuase: 1) required library is unavailable, normally because it is too old and unsupported; 2) required library's path is different in distro A from B. None of these are considered bugs and, as such, are rarely addressed. I believe Steam Linux Runtime is an attempt at fixing this,but I'm not sure about its effectiveness. Also, you are exaggerating on the "exact Wine version". It helps to know which versions don't have a regression by knowing which specific version an app used to run on.


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seba_dos1yesterday at 11:22 PM

> I believe Steam Linux Runtime is an attempt at fixing this,but I'm not sure about its effectiveness.

It's effective enough for it to be practically a solved problem now.