A quick note on the performance, it does look like there is increased CPU usage with this version of wine under linux. I hope to be able to find ways to improve that although I remind people that this is a spare time project for me so I’ll do what I can but I can’t promise anything.
Despite that, it looks like this build is very stable across a wide range of distros and so I’ve elected to push it to release (happened yesterday) and make it the default wine because the old wines will certainly break once we push a 64bit client.
I’m choosing a performance hit over a crash for people who just want a plug and play experience. Anyone who needs high performance may need to look into a custom tuned wine, at least in the short term.