[darryl]

@latepaul. Mono and wine are a bit of an unholy combination. On Manjaro I got the message about gecko and dotnet and installed the distro packages, yet the framework installed okay. But I agree the howto should be amended at least for mono. Not sure about gecko.

From what I can see Wine is in a funny state on Mint, Ubuntu and probably the other Ubuntu based distros. Not sure about Debian itself or distros based directly on Debian and not Ubuntu. The native packages for Wine and Winetricks are significantly outdated versions. You can settle for this or use the PPA versions of Wine. I hope to have a bit of spare time in the next day or two to install Mint in a VM and see if I can get it working. I think the howto may well need a section on these distros specifically. For the moment the old version of Winetricks probably should be installed with the package manager to see the necessary dependancies are satisfied, then the latest script downloaded and used to replace the old one in /usr/bin. Probably also need to include installing wine from the PPA. Hopefully we'll have a working procedure for Ubuntu based distros soon.

@DiapDealer @latepaul. I think we are all insane by these standards, together with many of our fellow Linux users. It is years since I used Debian and I have never bothered with Ubuntu or Mint beyond a cursory look. But I find using Windows these days incredibly annoying. It just seems to become ever more bloated and dumbed down with every new version. You want to get in, get something done quickly, and it won't start up for the next hour while it installs updates. Or your anti-virus prggram which you have paid good money for thinks its function is to continually show annoying and obtrusive popups trying to sell you the many other products from the vendors line. I am always so happy to get back to Linux.