WINE - was - Re: Budget-priced Windows license

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 5:52 AM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
> On 24/5/22 5:30 pm, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 15:34, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It was ratings like those that convinced me to stop using Wine.
> >
> >
> > It is a *lot* better than it used to be.
> >
> > https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/19/wine_7/
> >
> > Which is why I wrote that article, in fact.
> >
>
>
> Okay; I have read the article, after seeing the above post, but...
>
> When I visited the wine web site, to try to find how easy it would be,
> to install and use it on UbuntuMATE 20.10, the install procedure appears
> to be quite complicated, and, too risky (it requires 32 bit libraries,
> that apparently conflict with the Ubuntu 64 bit libraries, or
> something), and, it appears to be not available as a downloadable and
> installable package for 20.10.

Do you mean 20.04? 20.10 is end-of-life, and has been for almost a year.

Just for in case you didn't know this already, using an end-of-life
Ubuntu release is a good way to get hacked. You're missing about 10
months of critical security updates (most likely including web browser
updates), which leaves you open to all sorts of junk. One wrong click
during web browsing could result in a malware infection. I believe
I've gotten hacked in the past (on Linux!) from failing to keep my
system up to date, and the recovery process was not fun (I had to
reinstall my OS entirely, and I still have yet to dig up my old data
out of my last disk image backup).

> And, while 20.10, for the moment, like 16.04, my preferred version,
> seems to be running okay, I found the versions later than 20.10, to be
> too problematic.

Maybe you could explain what problems you've been having? That's why
we're here! Just keep in mind that, even if you have to hop to a
different Ubuntu flavor or even to a totally different distro
altogether in order to get an up-to-date and enjoyable computing
experience, it's better than continuing to use end-of-life software.
You'll be a lot more upset if you lose your data than if you have to
use a less enjoyable distro. (Though if the distros are getting worse
as time goes on, we'd like to know about it so we can fix it!)