EVE Online now also has received a Platinum rating at WineHQ:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=25823
One AppDB maintainer is against it, because he considers the need for the MS fonts a work-around. Yet does one not need winetricks corefonts, but rather does one have to install additional distro packages. Still, he argues the installation of these additional packages would be work-arounds. We’ll have to see what comes of it.
Fact is, one has to install additional packages on Debian to enable additional features of WINE. It’s just how Debian works. So do the MS fonts need to be installed with the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer, full OpenGL support for Nvidia requires the package nvidia-alternative and nvidia-alternative:i386, for full Vulkan support does it require mesa-vulkan-drivers and mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386, and so on.
Hopefully does the news catch on and people produce more Platinum reports, when they realise they can run EVE Online out-of-the-box with WINE 3.20 without needing any winetricks.
Debian 10 “Buster” now provides Wine 3.20 as part of the wine-development packages. So for anyone wanting to give it a try should the following be all they need to do:
dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt install \
wine-development \
wine32-development \
wine64-development \
libwine-development \
libwine-development:i386 \
fonts-wine \
ttf-mscorefonts-installer
# For full OpenGL support with Nvidia graphics cards:
apt install \
nvidia-alternative \
nvidia-alternative:i386
# For full Vulkan support:
apt install \
mesa-vulkan-drivers \
mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386
The Vulkan packages are not actually needed, but it enables full Vulkan support in WINE and so lets one use DXVK in addition. DXVK itself is also available as a package:
apt install \
dxvk \
dxvk-wine64-development \
dxvk-wine32-development:i386
See the manual pages with man dxvk-setup on how to use DXVK under Debian.