Wine is essential for many of us

[BulletDust]

@jsalatas

Rest assured that they haven’t tried so and they focus on providing the best KDE software.

Obviously, with respect, I’m aware of this.

@jsalatas

I know that it is a cliche, but in any case you can contribute I guess in that respective, either by your work, or by funding someone who is willing to do so.

Once again, the belief that everyone’s a coder, developer, or some form of UI designer is a sweeping generalization - You don’t want an OS that only caters to developers, you need an OS that caters to end users, and end users expect to be able to run the software they need without compromise.

An OS is effectively useless if it cannot run the wide range of software developed for the Linux platform without compromise to the end user.

Furthermore, there’s nothing to state that I don’t contribute financially to the project where possible.

@jsalatas

I’m not continuing this as per KDE’s conduct policy

Likewise, I don’t want to continue such discussion.

[claydoh]

@BulletDust

From our perspective we haven’t been told that KDE developers have tried dealing with this issue in any way whatsoever.

But I , as a user, have lurked in chat and seen them discuss their problems and frustrations trying to deal with this - each time it has happened. Even asked questions and politely reminding them that Wine is sort of a big deal, even if I personally don’t use it much these days. They DO care, but in the end stock Ubuntu wine packages work fine in neon, it is the third-party WineHQ repo that hates things, and there is a point where they simply have to move on to the main tasks, and you know, sleep a little and spend time with family and all that.

Yes, communication could be better (I used to be a small part of that with Kubuntu back in the day) but us users making big assumptions and demands and rants won’t change the reality that it ain’t always gonna work out the way we want it to.

I am done with this topic, I think.

[BulletDust]

@claydoh

But I , as a user, have lurked in chat and seen them discuss their problems and frustrations trying to deal with this - each time it has happened.

I respect you claydoh, and I honestly believe you. My intention is not to cause you distress by such discussion, I’m simply approaching things from the perspective of end users that aren’t developers or even Linux experts.

Peace my Friend.

[MCMic]

Last time I searched I could not find a flatpak for wine 32bit, how do I install it?
Also, after installing wine from flatpak, I do not have the “wine” command in cli.
And fightcade fails to find wine when installed from flatpak, I do not know if this is because of flatpak or missing 32bit support.

[jsalatas]

If I recall correctly you need to run it as follows

flatpak run org.winehq.Wine /path/to/program.exe

I don’t think you need the 32-bit of it. 64-bit should be able to also run 32-bit executables

[shadow]

I am happy to report that WineHQ installs and runs correctly with Neon 24.04 (It does not run correctly in Kubuntu 24.10). It is nice to have a system that properly updates again.

All in all, the update to 24.04 went exceedingly well and fixed virtually every problem I was experiencing with the aging 22.04.