LinuxMint is an excellent operating system. It’s been more than 10 years since I’ve used microsoft windows, for several reasons, though freedom is the most important of them all. To use Linux the way it is supposed to be used, the way you absolutely want to, that is freedom, without restrictions, advertisements, and many other reasons. Among other reasons LinuxMint is fantastic is its ease of use, being a debian / ubuntu based operating system makes it compatible with their many software packages. I’ll say that LinuxMint is the future for using Desktop computing. Mac OS also, that is linux / unix based. So here is the code from winehq.org to use to install wine, that will allow to run a windows program on a Linux.
To make it compatible with 386 programs, newer modern programs are 64 bit, amd64.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386Add the repository key
sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key -Add the Linux Distro and name of the flavor of distro of the version of Linux Mint you are using.
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia (as of today’s Linux Mint version of writing this article)
download Linux Mint MATE or other Desktop, there’s options for the Linux Mint Desktop, MATE, Cinnamon, xfce.
www.linuxmint.com
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/noble/winehq-noble.sourcesnow update LinuxMint, and the wine packages will be available to your LinuxMint OS.
sudo apt updatenow to install wine.
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
or
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-develI simply install the second option usually, though the first choice is fine also.
Source: winehq.org , Download
Happy Coding!