wich Linux distro ?
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Ronald1969
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wich Linux distro ?
Wich Linux distro has the best wine ?
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JoseskVolpe
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Re: wich Linux distro ?
There's no better Linux distro for Wine, but there's problematic distributions
If you try distributions like Kali Linux, Endless OS, CentOS, Scientific Linux etc you'll face a lot of issues and incompatibilities with Wine, or you'll not be able to use Wine at all
Applications may have different behaviors distro-to-distro though, for example, i couldn't run Yamaha Expansion Manager on Manjaro but it runs out-of-the-box on Zorin OS, and i had more difficult to run Clip Studio on Linux Mint than on Manjaro, BigLinux and Zorin OS.
Hardware may also imply on how applications works too.
Choose the distribution that better fits your needs, most distributions works well with Wine.
I recommend to check AppDB for your application in case you find issues, if you find on the list that another distribution works with a recent Wine version but you've got no working workaround on your distribution, it's time to check what's causing issues on your distro or to try/move to another distribution.
If you try distributions like Kali Linux, Endless OS, CentOS, Scientific Linux etc you'll face a lot of issues and incompatibilities with Wine, or you'll not be able to use Wine at all
Applications may have different behaviors distro-to-distro though, for example, i couldn't run Yamaha Expansion Manager on Manjaro but it runs out-of-the-box on Zorin OS, and i had more difficult to run Clip Studio on Linux Mint than on Manjaro, BigLinux and Zorin OS.
Hardware may also imply on how applications works too.
Choose the distribution that better fits your needs, most distributions works well with Wine.
I recommend to check AppDB for your application in case you find issues, if you find on the list that another distribution works with a recent Wine version but you've got no working workaround on your distribution, it's time to check what's causing issues on your distro or to try/move to another distribution.
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Ronald1969
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Re: wich Linux distro ?
Does wine in Kubuntu work better then in Mint 20.3 ?
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JoseskVolpe
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Re: wich Linux distro ?
In most cases, it depends much on your hardware. Mint is based-off from Ubuntu, so Ubuntu and Mint shares most of the libraries.
Don't keep looking much into Wine while choosing distributions, choose them based on other aspects.
If you're very beginner, i would recommend Mint over Kubuntu because it offers more user-friendly tools than Kubuntu.
The special aspect of Kubuntu over Ubuntu is that it offers KDE Plasma desktop environment instead of Gnome (while Mint offers Cinnamon, MATE and XFCE). If you want a desktop environment that offers more user-power, customization, rich look-and-feel features etc, then Kubuntu is a good option. However, although they have less features than Plasma, XFCE and Cinnamon also offers user customization power. XFCE is a better lightweight option.
As Mint shares most libraries from Ubuntu, Wine is shared between them aswell, and Canonical's Wine is very outdated. You'll need to follow these steps to install a supported and recent Wine version on both Kubuntu and Mint:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
There is 3 editions for Wine: Stable, Development and Staging
Stable: Offers a year release with a higher guarantee that your current applications will not break in the next release. Only security and important bug fixes are committed on this release. if you're beginner or a lay user, or don't want to report bugs at all, you'll most likely want this version installed on your system alongside other tools like PlayOnLinux, Lutris and WineGUI.
Development: Offers a feature-testing release, this version offers new Wine features that improves application compatibility that needs to be tested before going to the stable release, it's unstable as it's somewhat common to find regressions on this release but will have more compatibility with modern Windows applications. If you wish to contribute on Wine reporting bugs and regressions, you would need to be on this release.
Staging: A development release with community volunteer patches that needs some code-cleaning and optimization before going into the development release. Has better compatibility with modern applications that uses tools like web engines. I would recommend stable or development releases, but you can extract staging binaries in somewhere else if you need it or install applications on Staging releases using PlayOnLinux.
Don't keep looking much into Wine while choosing distributions, choose them based on other aspects.
If you're very beginner, i would recommend Mint over Kubuntu because it offers more user-friendly tools than Kubuntu.
The special aspect of Kubuntu over Ubuntu is that it offers KDE Plasma desktop environment instead of Gnome (while Mint offers Cinnamon, MATE and XFCE). If you want a desktop environment that offers more user-power, customization, rich look-and-feel features etc, then Kubuntu is a good option. However, although they have less features than Plasma, XFCE and Cinnamon also offers user customization power. XFCE is a better lightweight option.
As Mint shares most libraries from Ubuntu, Wine is shared between them aswell, and Canonical's Wine is very outdated. You'll need to follow these steps to install a supported and recent Wine version on both Kubuntu and Mint:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
There is 3 editions for Wine: Stable, Development and Staging
Stable: Offers a year release with a higher guarantee that your current applications will not break in the next release. Only security and important bug fixes are committed on this release. if you're beginner or a lay user, or don't want to report bugs at all, you'll most likely want this version installed on your system alongside other tools like PlayOnLinux, Lutris and WineGUI.
Development: Offers a feature-testing release, this version offers new Wine features that improves application compatibility that needs to be tested before going to the stable release, it's unstable as it's somewhat common to find regressions on this release but will have more compatibility with modern Windows applications. If you wish to contribute on Wine reporting bugs and regressions, you would need to be on this release.
Staging: A development release with community volunteer patches that needs some code-cleaning and optimization before going into the development release. Has better compatibility with modern applications that uses tools like web engines. I would recommend stable or development releases, but you can extract staging binaries in somewhere else if you need it or install applications on Staging releases using PlayOnLinux.
