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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm still a bit confused by the use of this "Driver Store". Since when does Wine support device drivers? Or are we talking about something else?

Phoronix seems to explain a bit more, but I still did not understand: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.16-Released

Could anyone share their insights?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm just as stumped, but my best guess is there's some application(s) that expect(s) the Windows Driver store to work and return an exception if it's missing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah that’s it, this website explains it.

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