![]() The update coincides with a massive price increase for yearly subscriptions. That brings me to now and the 800lb gorilla which wasn't mentioned in this posting. Honestly, I've half-expected them to announce dropping Linux support altogether for years now. They still would make improvements to game compatibility on the Linux side but it just wasn't as rapid or significant as earlier. This is largely because they found they could sell their porting expertise as a service to the actual game devs and publishers who wanted their Windows-only app or game to also have a Mac version. I think they realized there was more money to be made catering to the MacOS crowd rather than Linux users and their focus very clearly shifted in that direction. Things changed a bit about seven or eight years ago. tie file system has been around for a long time too which basically lets you download Wine presets for a specific game which others in the community have already figured out. Backing up "bottles" and restoring them, say, after a rebuild of your OS was/is a breeze too. Being able to manage all that in one app was fantastic. Back then, Crossover was the only show in town allowing you to have 10 different Wine installations all with different tweaks and different emulated versions of Windows (3.51 was the popular one back then which seemed to work with most games, oddly enough). I've been a paying subscriber to Crossover for what, 15ish years now? So, long before Steam came around and made it easy to manage separate Wine (Proton) installs. It comes down to what you prefer - choices are great. CrossOver also has many paid staff working on it, with more quality assurance testing so there's that too. You're paying for supported software, while also directly helping Wine and Proton development because CodeWeavers sponsor Wine. ![]() Why use CrossOver instead of something like Bottles? Well, it's largely all about support. Seems like they might be having issues with GTA Online bans though, so be warned. ![]() They say you also get initial support for DirectX 12 with a "handful" of games running well along with fixes to Office 2016/365 bugs. Plus there's a new Home view, which is a mash up of their old All Bottles and Favourites views.ĬrossOver 22 includes Wine 7.7, Wine Mono 7.2.0 and vkd3d 1.4. They also revamped the bottle view, where you actually install things. What you get is a more guided install path for many applications, while also still letting you override things to your liking. Some of the other big changes to come along with the UI redesign include extensive changes to the installation process, an updated search function. They said their goal with the redesign was to make it "more intuitive to use and offer a more modern look and feel" enabling "users to find the things they need to do most often and to bring the CrossOver interface in line with our branding". One of the big new things about this release is the refreshed user interface, with the last upgrade to the UI being CrossOver 15 many years ago and no redesign since CrossOver 9. This is their special proprietary interface for helping users across Linux, macOS and Chrome OS work with applications and games designed for Windows on their platform of choice. ![]() CodeWeavers, the company that works on Proton with Valve and supports Wine development, has announced the released of CrossOver 22.0.0.
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