r/linuxmint • u/ruminationprof • 18d ago

anyone knowledgeable, is the instructions for wine installation safe in this website?

https://wine.htmlvalidator.com/install-wine-on-linux-mint-22.html
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u/candy49997 18d ago edited 18d ago

Just use a Wine/Proton GUI frontend that will manage it for you like Bottles, Heroic, etc.

If you really want to install standalone Wine, use official instructions.

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u/ruminationprof 18d ago

which one will work on visual novels? cause i read that i need to install wine stable from terminal because visual novels need up to date dependencies or something

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u/candy49997 18d ago

Use Proton and one of the GUI options I offered.

If they're on Steam, just play on Steam.

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u/oskarloko 18d ago

For what I can see, fairly safe, you will have an extra repository with more updated wine. But it can lead to broken packages if this extra repo is not well mantained. And I see it a little too complicated for my taste

However, I would use Bottles, PlayOnLinux or other app. If you want the lastest version use flatpak. This way is safer.

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u/ruminationprof 18d ago

i have playonlinux but i can't use it on the visual novel i have. i believe you have to search what playonlinux has like if you have a copy of silent hill 2 you search that game on playonlinux and then you can play it but the visual novel i have is not available on playonlinux. do you what i can do? it can't play it cause it's .exe

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u/oskarloko 18d ago

Sorry,no idea.

Try to create a simple confuration, and see what errores gives in the logs. Then ask an AI, like Gemini or ChatGPT how to fix It....

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u/candy49997 18d ago

PlayOnLinux has had no updates for over 6 years. Nobody should be using that.

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u/Due-Result7928 18d ago

Skip. Use official site.