Thanks for your reply Jeff, On Tuesday, 02-07-2024 at 10:16 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 6:33 PM George at Clug <c...@goproject.info> wrote: > > > > To all who replied, Thanks. > > > > Sadly after further testing I still have very little success with Wine. > > > > When I installed WineHQ's Wine Installation, Gecko and Mono were able to be > > installed. I noticed a rpcss.exe (from memory) in Taskmgr. This at least > > allowed me to display the initial web page in Wine's Iexplore. But sadly it > > did not help me in successfully installing the current Windows versions of > > Firefox or Chrome, or other programs I was having challenges with. > > > > I also tried PlayOnLinux [for installing Firefox or Chrome] without any > > success. > > > > The "Time vs ROI" for this endeavour suggests to me, that for now, I should > > just use Linux native programs. > > I think this is probably wandering off-topic, but I'll toss it out there... > > When in Rome, do as the Romans do. That means you run Windows programs > on WIndows VMs, and Linux programs on Linux VMs. Don't try to use Wine > to run Windows programs on Linux; and don't try to use a POSIX > subsystem to run Linux programs on WIndows. Mixing and matching is not > worth the aggravation.
I had hopes using Wine was easier than I have found it to be. Your comment above has merit. There has been so many versions of Windows over the years, so many different programs with specific DLL and API needs. In part, I understand the challenge of having a system emulate another OS. I ran dual boot for a time, and I still have one Windows 10 PC for running games but have not used it for some time now, like you suggested, I only run programs that can run on Linux, if they don't run in Linux, I do not use them. Others I know would still like to run some particular Windows program. > > You never stated what problem you are trying to solve. I wanted to know "how to configure and use Wine to run a Windows program". No specific programs in mind, but MS Office could be an example. I also used Windows versions of Scite, Putty, WinSCP as test examples, only because they are smaller programs and I am familiar with using the programs in a Windows environment. As Mario pointed, one example would be to have a modern web browser with DRM. Many games are only released as Windows programs. Fortunately Steam has achieved amazing results for running Windows games in Linux. At this stage I am only testing the concept, to see what is possible, what works, and what does not work. To see what I need to understand so I can configure Wine for any given Windows application. > I'm guessing > there's a native Linux replacement for it so you don't need to wine > and iexplore. Iexplore I was referring to, is a program that comes with Wine, for the purposes of testing that your Wine installation has some level of basic working configuration for running Windows programs. > > Jeff >
