Hello cwizardone,

I am in a pre-updating situation and your problems made me stall the update (because of starcraftII). In order to check things I found a number of compat32 packages to be updated, but also a few of them which are listed as uninstalled under slackpkg+. Especially elogind-compat32 made me think...

So, just a wild guess, maybe you also miss one of these?

Anyways thank you for warning the less knowing guys (like me) of this trap

Good luck
Franz

The updates of the last days also broke a lot of my wine programs. Since I need some of them to get my work done I tried to fix it the whole night...

Finally I downloaded Crossover (commercial version of wine) and everything works very well, even better than before! They charge you 35 Euro but claim that all the money will be used to improve wine and crossover and there is a trial version as well.

For me that's totally worth it!

It's been years now but I once tried the trial version of Crossover and discovered that then it was optimized for Office type applications and not nearly as high performance for games compared to wine-staging. Has that changed?

Actually I'm asking now solely out of intellectual curiosity since Steam's use of Proton is now so good that I no longer use wine. However if I ever come across a need for more typical windows executables (perhaps firmware or even more inclusive manuals that only install with some manufacturer's install packages for windows) I'd still be willing to pay for Crossover rather than give M$ a single penny.

My only experience of crossover is a person I know on the Scrivener forums who uses Crossover on a Mac to run the Windows version of Scrivener. (I gather the Chinese language support is better in Windows? I'm not sure about his reasoning.) I think he has more bugs with it, but his support is better. that is, since the fee also pays for support, someone helps him when things break. WINE, you're on your own, unless someone's reading the forums. The WINE website seems to be less populated than it has been in the past. I think the appdb's time has come and gone, because you can't comment unless there's a maintainer, and since many maintainers have abandoned the entries, there isn't much new. They also don't allow reports using dxvk, and any dx11 game needs it. (Also benefits a lot of dx9 applications.)