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?
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.
I’m actually wondering if it’s not just applications. That text talks of installing drivers to devices, so I’m actually wondering if this is about better support for hardware that’s paired to specific software. The recent use-case that’s got it on my mind is Rekordbox with Pioneer DJ decks. My housemate was curious so I tried running it under WINE and it launches just fine, but it could not see the decks at all, nor the encrypted license key verification it does with it’s driver. And I did manually install the driver into the prefix first.
However, I’m not positive this is it. It’s just a hunch.
It seems like the support copying to the driver store. I don’t think they have driver support. I believe you would need a kernel like what is in React OS