Is there a Wine configuring and users guide for Linux Mint ?

[Ronald1969]

Is there a Wine configuring and users guide for Linux Mint ?
After Installing Wine in Linux Mint, it always stays in the phase of configuring Wine.. It keeps asking to be confuguring whole the time whatever I do. I neither dont understand how to start windows games like Elder Scrols online ? Can someone tell me that or giving me a wine users guide for Linux Mint ?

[jkfloris]

How did you install Wine?
Here we can only give advice on the WineHQ packages.

Wine from WineHQ has no menu items. So you have to use the terminal.
This allows you to see what is going on.

Open a terminal window and type:

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wine explorer

This should give a Windows-like file explorer window.
Now you can use your mouse to browse to your Windows exe file and launch it with a double click.
The C: drive is your virtual Windows installation
The Z: drive is your real harddisk.

Or you start the Windows program with the terminal:

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wine windows-program.exe

Wine's manual has more information on this.
https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User%27s_Guide#Using_Wine

By default, Wine does not require any configuration.
However, should this be necessary, you can use:

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wine winecfg

Unfortunately, Wine is not perfect and sometimes a Windows (DLL) file may work better than the Wine version.
This is why the program winetricks was created.
WineHQ can no longer provide support if you have used a winetrick. So don't just install all kinds of files.
Also, using winetricks can destroy your virtual Windows disk. You have been warned.

You can install winetricks with:

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sudo apt install winetricks
# And update to the latest version!
sudo winetricks --self-update

If you have more questions, let us know!

[m4nt1s]

Hello Ronald,

if you use Steam, then you should be able to run games with Proton without many issues. Many games, however, require you to turn on a compatibility option (properties -> compatibility -> Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool) and won't offer you proton as a default, so even to install them you need to first switch the compatibility option on.

if you are new to Linux and Wine in general and/or you don't use Steam (but maybe GOG etc.), I recommend you take a look at Lutris. It is available on most Linux distributions and also on Mint.

Lutris is a linux-based game launcher both for native linux games and windows games that you can run with wine (or proton). It helped me to get an overview of what you can do with wine, which other software might be required and/or useful, etc., until I got more used to use wine on the command line. For a new beginner, it should be a (relatively) comfortable way to get used to gaming on Linux.

General info about lutris: https://lutris.net/about
specific info about Elder Scrolls Online on lutris: https://lutris.net/games/the-elder-scrolls-online/

Besides that, you asked for specific guides for wine and linux mint. There is good news - you usually don't need to search for solutions specific for the linux distribution you use. mint is based on ubuntu is based on debian. Most information for any of these distributions should still be useful for you, as long as you have a general idea about the differences between them. You might also check out the arch linux wiki, which is very detailed (but partially deviates as debian is not arch etc., so different tools might be used for the same task etc.). Just make sure you understand what you read before you apply it

[Ronald1969]

Well.. On the windows side of my PC, my games are on another partition then where Windows is installed. In Windows, Windows installed on C: and my Games of E:. I want to start Elder Scrols Online on E:\Games\Bethesda\Zenimax Online\Launcher\Bethesda.net_Launcher.exe. How do I do that by Wine ?

[Ronald1969]

I have given more input here, but why I dont see it here, not even after refreshing the webpage ?

[dimesio]

Well.. On the windows side of my PC, my games are on another partition then where Windows is installed. In Windows, Windows installed on C: and my Games of E:. I want to start Elder Scrols Online on E:\Games\Bethesda\Zenimax Online\Launcher\Bethesda.net_Launcher.exe. How do I do that by Wine ?

https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#I_have_lots ... in_Wine.3F