Wine 9.22 hangs at two "places":
1. It hangs at "wine configuration at /home/$user is being updated. Please, wait...". When that happens the terminal and a few other programs won't open. IDK what they have in common with Wine for that to happen, but it does happen. So the only way to get unstuck is the so called "cold restart" from the power button.
2. If by any luck it doesn't hang at "wine config is being updated", then wine asks for wine mono. If you click "Install", it hangs at the installation process forever. By the looks of that dialog, it hangs at about 98%. Again, a "cold restart" is the only fix.
I thought that maybe my old config conflicts with the config of 9.22, so after the reboot I deleted ~/.wine but both hangs happened the same way I described them.
I finally fixed the problem by deleting ~/.wine, uninstalling 9.22 and installing 9.21. After that I manually installed wine-mono from Arch's repo and also manually installed .Net Framework 4.8.1 from an offline installer I had downloaded.
But despite that I have fixed my problem, it still leaves 9.22 with its glitches that need to be addressed. At the very least you could make it NOT to ask for Mono, after it has been installed. I know for a fact that Mono isn't among the dependencies, so I really don't understand why wine is looking for it anyway. OR, add wine-mono to the dependencies of the main wine package, thus having a workaround for the hanging installation of Mono.
