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<p>Hi Ted,</p>
<p>With regard to 'wine' I offer the following in the spirit of "In
the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king".</p>
<p>Probably you're unaware of and missing one or more, perhaps
several, 'dependencies' and helper programs and maybe also you
need packages to support both 64-bit and i386 architectures.
Depends on both the particular applications you want to run and
your particular flavor of Linux. Try the wikis. If there is not
a good one for your distribution, or maybe even if there is, have
a good look at </p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.debian.org/Wine#Optional_Wine_dependencies">https://wiki.debian.org/Wine#Optional_Wine_dependencies</a> </p>
<p>and </p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine">https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine</a> . Be prepared to suffer a
little brain damage.<br>
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<p>If you're not sure about anything don't be afraid to try things
out. You're not likely to do any serious harm to your system. If
things don't work or go haywire, remove the new stuff you
installed and delete the entire .wine directory before you start
over.</p>
<p>As you may have gathered, I'm a big fan of MX Linux 'Live USB's.
That is, you have a complete separate Linux operating system on a
thumb drive or SD card. You can experiment and screw up all you
want without ever placing anything on your computer's hard drive.
Moreover, MX has it's own easy-to-use, tested-and-curated
proprietary point-and-click GUI package management system, 'MX
Package Installer', that lists 'wine' among its offerings.
There's a high probability that it will be adequately configured
to run whatever you install under it just fine, "right out of the
box". </p>
<p>'MX Package Installer' also offers 'Virtual Box' under which you
may install 'Windows' and then install the programs you need under
that in lieu of using 'wine'. You might find that's an easier
path to follow on your way to making a complete transition to
Linux.<br>
</p>
<p>As for Linux email packages, in my experience, 'Thunderbird' does
everything you can imagine and works just fine. There's also the
unofficial free desktop client for encrypted Proton Mail, i.e. a
non-webmail version, called 'Electron Mail' that's very easy to
use. That one is a bit confusing to install when you're still new
to Linux (mostly because you must download it from github.) </p>
<p>But there again, however, an MX Linux 'Live USB' might come in
handy as a safe, low-cost and relatively painless sandbox to
practice in.</p>
<p>For what it's worth,</p>
<p>Tom<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/24/24 15:21, Ted Reichelt wrote:<br>
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I am still on a quest to get to a point to become a solely linux
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as for the personal side.'</div>
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If I can make use of wine for maybe a couple of programs that
are just not available in linux I'll be happy.</div>
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As it is wine has not worked for me. out of the box none of
these programs are working with wine.</div>
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I am lately using zorin and sofar like it a lot. i do prefer the
more cutting edge distros since they allow me to run a lot of
the stuff I need.</div>
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I haven't spend a lot of time with wine to troubleshoot but
frustrating that i have to spend all this time to make something
work with wine. </div>
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for email my other big issue with linux, blue mail sofar the
best but in my opinion still could use some basic improvements
but it works.</div>
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mailspring was a great candidate but they totally drop the ball
with o365 support and it's been a while. </div>
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did I mention these are all on older desktops ? 🙂 still
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