Is it safe to delete .wine in root and in a home folder?

[RobertX]

It's not that I don't need anything in those folders, it's more that I have no intentions to run anything in those folders.

I have made a Wine Prefix directory running 32-bit games and I intend to use only that for now.

Is it safe to delete the .wine folder in those two aforementioned (see topic) directories?

[jkfloris]

You can remove those folders.

Keep in mind that if you accidentally give a wine command without specifying a wineprefix the folder will be created again. You can prevent this by replacing the .wine directory with an (empty) file.

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# Remove the wine directory
rm -r .wine

# Create an empty file
touch .wine
# or a placeholder
echo "# No default wineprefix" > .wine

# Optionally, make the file read only
chmod 400 .wine

[RobertX]

I'll be very careful.