I have an older installation of Neon that uses the libpoppler workaround to get WinHQ working properly in the 22.04 base. In order to get the rebase, I will need to update libpoppler which will break winehq in 22.04.
Will I be able to restore Winehq within noble 24.04, and and not lose all my wine apps? Or is the libpoppler issue still a thing? I know the Neon team recommends the flatpak, but I really do not want to go that route if it can be at all avoided. I am hoping that the upgrade will actually restore the simple ppa functionality.
WineHQ will work, for the time being. No way to know if or when it might break next.
WineHQ worked originally in 22.04, and iirc 20.04 (or 18.04?), before some Plasma dependencies got too far ahead of the base and affected the external , third-party WineHQ repo.
But there should be time to move to using Wine’s flatpak, or try Lutris and Bottles. You’ll never have this sort of issue in the future when you do.
I really don’t know. I have never ‘converted’. I am not sure if this is stored in your home directory or not, though that shouldn’t be hard to find out.
I think the flatpak may still use the standard ~/.wine directory.