It’s not literal wine… Wine is a Linux program that will allow you to run some Windows programs. Grapejuice uses it to run Roblox, as Roblox cannot be run on Linux.
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grapejuice will be shut down because of byfron…
even a roblox staff said that it’s intentional
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I know this; I was replying to the text in the spoiler
This is probably the last update. Quite a lot has happened surrounding Roblox on Linux in the past couple of weeks. Let’s get the negative stuff out of the way first.
Roblox has decided to block Wine on the Player with the rollout of the 64-bit Hyperion client. Studio is highly unstable and nearly unusable at the moment. That means using Roblox on Wine pretty much dead in the water. People are finding alternative ways to play Roblox on Linux using Android emulators, but it’s not ideal.
There are some new posts on my older thread that clarified that there probably won’t be any improvements in the situation for quite a while.
Now let’s get on to the more positive aspect. I’ve been advocating for Roblox on Linux since 2017. Much has changed since then. Most of it has been positive. The main reason for sticking to it is that I really believe that some people shouldn’t be blocked in their tech career choices. Many tech careers require you to be knowledgeable at Linux. Not being able to work on their favourite game engine / platform is a significant roadblock for many. Over the years I’ve received messages from people that have started their career in tech because of Grapejuice, so that goal of the project was a major success!
I created Grapejuice in 2019, which is just over 4 years ago. In that time its grown to proportions that I never expected it would. On the devforum, the Grapejuice thread has grown to be the most viewed in in the Community Resources category. The app now has nearly 200,000 tracked installations and the Discord server has reached nearly 4,000 members. The actual number of people using Grapejuice is probably much higher, but I never added active telemetry.
I want to thank everyone who contributed to the project and stuck around for the ride. I’m really grateful.
Finally, a list of everyone that contributed and stuck around. Love you guys 
@Unpopularising
@Thelolguy1337
@aidas957
@hiimgoodpack
@lqckings
@Ankhikamun
@kaz_iaa
@PetrifiedOak
@SilverCreeper58
@ter17103
@BakonBot
@maaapizza
@yukari_telepath
@Ali_Furkan
@Karimrir
@GlitchPhoenix98
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Thank you Brinker.
It was fun while it lasted.
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I started trying out Grapejuice in 2019, and I have used it into 2023. I never understood the stability issues because I only committed to Linux on my laptop. I’ll probably transition my desktop to Linux before the end of the month with my outstanding hardware issues resolved. Even with the current issues, I still plan to use Grapejuice.
I do have some good news to bear for those who are fine with setting up virtual machines with VFIO for hardware passthrough: Hyperion is very easy to please in Windows virtual machines. At the time of writing, all you need to do to make Hyperion not crash you on start is to enable Hyper-V in your guest Windows VM. I don’t see Roblox’s reasoning for blocking VMs to apply to Hyper-V as it is Microsoft’s enterprise-grade and secure hypervisor. Time will tell (and any replies to this, possibly) will tell if the last way to do Roblox (client) in any way on a Linux host is possible. For now though, while Roblox is making Roblox on Linux hard, we aren’t out of this yet.
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Thank you Brinker and all the contributors of WINE and Grapejuice
I think we need to come together to develop an open-source Roblox and port it to Linux 
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Thank you Brinker, WINE and everyone
We have to do a new roblox linux port :b
I hope it will be possible 
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It looks like it’s my job to link some good news:
That is no longer necessary:
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/why-did-roblox-stop-supporting-linux-users/2444335/40
I remember seeing some post in #development-discussion saying that the source was leaked in 2016. Not sure where to find it, but this is probably a viable very difficult to accomplish option.
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This is not legal, nor plausible to accomplish.
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So, this means if someone were to fix Grapejuice to get it to install studio again, it could theoretically work?
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I believe so. They said the internal engine bug was fixed.
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Heres some good news!
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/why-did-roblox-stop-supporting-linux-users/2444335/61
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As mentioned in the thread linked above, Roblox is working on zintegration. However, it was difficult to get working on my laptop using NixOS and my Steam Deck using SteamOS. NixOS should be a simple version update to 7.14.4, which I may look into today since I could use some experience updating NisOX packages (Rojo also needs a version bump from 7.2.1 → 7.3.0). Flathub needs a WINE version update since it bundles a version of 7.20 when 8.0 is required. Probably should be handled sooner rather than later for SteamOS users, as well as a 7.11.4 → 7.14.4 update.
Edit: Gave up on Rojo due to OpenSSL issues. Currently confirming something with the NixOS package before I push any changes for Grapejuice.
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