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honestly, wine has seemed unreasonably complex to me in the past and i haven’t tried since. but Bottles offers a nice easy to use GUI, i do recommend giving it a shot. at least on arch linux it’s super easy to install via the AUR.
the only issue is some apps need additional dependencies which can take some searching to figure out what exactly is needed. the arch wiki lists a bunch of them though, and often the error messages bottles shows will point you the right way.
i’ve gotten almost every .exe to work with it, most immediately, some after a short bit of tinkering.
that said, i did end up finding open source alternatives for all the software i use often, and don’t use bottles much.
The bottles flatpak is the official release so people not on an arch based system can/should use that
