I installed Wine through the Software Manager on Linux Mint, but when I try to launch it, nothing happens and I can't find it anywhere on my system. If Wine can only be launched through the terminal, could anyone suggest a user-friendly GUI I can use to run Windows programs more easily, similar to how Steam manages games?
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Wine doesn't function like a typical game launcher (like Steam); it runs Windows executables by translating their API calls to Linux, which means launching Wine alone won't do anything. For a better experience, check out Lutris. It's a great graphical frontend that helps run Windows applications through Wine.
Have you tried using Bottles? It's another option to manage Wine installations and might simplify things for you.
I just installed Bottles; I'll see how it goes.
How do you feel about using the Terminal? Running commands there can often sort issues with Wine.
I'm still getting used to it. When I typed 'wine mspaint.exe', it said 'Application could not be started or no application associated with the specified file.'
If all else fails, consider running Windows 10 in a VM (like GNOME Boxes). Give it at least 8GB of RAM and around 80GB for storage. But I get it; you might not want a whole Windows setup just for Paint.
Yeah, I really don’t want a full Windows VM just for MS Paint.
What exactly are you attempting to run with Wine? That might help narrow down the best approach.
I want to run MS Paint from this link: https://archive.org/details/MSPaintWin10, but it keeps crashing when I try.
I tried Bottles, but all it does is show "launching mspaint.exe" and then nothing happens.