Arch Linux Adopts 64-Bit Wine

The distributors of Arch Linux recently made an announcement regarding the default assembly and the Wine assembly and Wine-Staging in Wow64 (64-bit windows-on-windows). This allows for the execution of 32-bit Windows Applications in 64-bit UNIX systems. With the supply of 64-bit assemblies, Wine, there is no longer a need for packages like wine and wine-staging in the Multilib repository with 32-bit versions of libraries.

The decision for this change was made to synchronize with changes in the main Wine project, which aimed at simplifying the creation of packages and reducing the dependency chain. However, there are potential issues that may arise after the migration to Wow64, including a decrease in the performance of Opengl for 32-bit Windows programs and the requirement to recover the existing 32-bit prefixes in Wine.

/Reports, release notes, official announcements.