Which linux Distribution is best as a base for WINE?

[DavidXanatos]

Which Linux Distribution is best as a base for WINE?
My last experience admittedly over 5 years ago was that many disributions have only old wine versions in their packet sources,
so I wonder which Linux Distribution i should pick if my goal is to use wine with a lot of windows applications (productivity software, not primarily games)?
Or should I install WINE not from the provided sources in the distri but some other way?

[desessarts]

Hello

I would say any distro where you can install the
latest wine you see on

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Download

so pick any in

Ubuntu

Debian

Fedora

Suse

Slackware

[DavidXanatos]

Well I tried Mint 22 and followed the guide at: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/w ... ian-Ubuntu

and am getting this error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
winehq-devel : Depends: wine-devel (= 9.22~noble-1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

how can I fix that?

[desessarts]

usually this means you did not follow exactly all the steps, e.g. forgetting a

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sudo apt update

or anything else

do it againg

[invisible kid]

Sometimes you just want to go where the support is, which means which one has more users or is more popular. Now that seems to be debian(or something debian-based). Arch seems pretty popular too and looks like a decent amount of support.