- the latest version of Wine (due to having all of the newest security patches)
- the oldest version of Wine for your distro (due to having worse compatibility with Windows software)
(One thing not mentioned in that thread is that the "other program" I spoke of, ExactFile, which works for creating checksum files via Wine but is much slower does not hash hidden files or folders annoyingly enough. There's also another program I've since discovered, md5summer, that can recursively hash hidden files and folders via Wine, but it takes quite a few more steps to create a checksum, it doesn't support files with unicode filenames which is a problem for a "certified weeb" like myself, it always asks if you want to associate md5summer with .md5 files, and it defaults to a .md5 extension even when selecting SHA1 format as well as incorrectly calling them MD5 checksums in the included comment lines in the resulting SHA1 checksum file.)