From 56a2ec854ce05134ae3cf1dbe523b6d637cbd99b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robbert van der Helm Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 18:54:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Remove recommendation to use Wine Staging 6.4 Wine Staging (or rather, wine-tkg) 6.12 seems stable so far. As long as you don't enable fshack, apparently. --- README.md | 19 ++++++------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c2c16655..68b5f19a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ while also staying easy to debug and maintain. ## Tested with -Yabridge has been tested under the following hosts using Wine Staging -6.4[\*](#downgrading-wine): +Yabridge has been tested under the following hosts using Wine Staging 6.12: | Host | VST2 | VST3 | | ------------------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------ | @@ -71,17 +70,11 @@ Manjaro ([yabridge](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yabridge/), ### Preliminaries -Yabridge requires a recent version of Wine (Staging). Users of Debian, Ubuntu, -Linux Mint and Pop!\_OS should install Wine Staging from the [WineHQ +Yabridge requires a recent-ish version of Wine (Staging). Users of Debian, +Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Pop!\_OS should install Wine Staging from the [WineHQ repositories](https://wiki.winehq.org/Download) as the versions of Wine provided by those distro's repositories may be too old to be used with yabridge. -At the moment it can be a good idea to stick with Wine Staging 6.4 as more -recent versions contain regressions that may cause crashes with certain plugins, -downloads in Native Access to fail, and Wine processes to not shut down -properly. See [below](#downgrading-wine) for instructions on downgrading to Wine -Staging 6.4. - For a general overview on how to use Wine to install Windows applications, check out Wine's [user guide](https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User%27s_Guide#Using_Wine). @@ -193,9 +186,9 @@ to override the Wine prefix for _all instances_ of yabridge. ### Downgrading Wine -There have been some regressions in Wine since Wine 6.4. If you run into -software or a plugin that does not work correctly with the current version of -Wine Staging, then you may want to try downgrading to an earlier version of +There have been a couple of small regressions in Wine after Wine 6.4. If you run +into software or a plugin that does not work correctly with the current version +of Wine Staging, then you may want to try downgrading to an earlier version of Wine. This can be done as follows: - On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other apt-based distros, you can use the