[Feature Request] Being able to set the normal global wine version for all prefixes

[ghost]

What I mean is,that you can set a wine version that gets used for every prefix and if you change the global wine version,then it will be changed for the prefixes. And if you don't wanna use that global version,then you can just change it,but the global version is enabled automatically. So that it behaves like steam. I would find that better,cause if there is a new wine version,then you don't have to change it manually for all programs that use the global version.

[plata]

The problem is: if the new Wine version breaks stuff, your previously working apps will not work anymore. So sticking to a defined version is the desired behavior.

[ghost]

But if that happens,then you could just change the global wine version to something older.

[plata]

What's the advantage? If you keep the wine version, it will just continue to work.

[ghost]

Some games only work with the newest version. And some years later I would have to change the wine versions of all versions to something newer anyway,cause then they will be outdated.

[plata]

That's possible but you just treat one issue for another.

[ghost]

What do you mean with that?

[plata]

Both approaches have their problems. No matter which approach you choose, there will always be cases where it doesn't work out.

[ghost]

But then it would be cool if you could turn this feature on/off in the settings. Then the people who don't need it won't have to use it.

[plata]

Question: if we do this, what's the difference to using only a single prefix for everything?

[ghost]

The problem with using a single prefix only is that if a virus is in there,then it destroys the other programs.