GNU/Linux Mint 18 Installing Wine – QuickStart Guide
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Wine in Mint 18.x Sarah/Serena/Sonya/Sylvia LTS GNU/Linux Desktop.
Especially relevant, this is the Recommended way to Install Wine on Mint because the Software is quickly evolving with 3 main Branches: Stable, Staging, and Development.
Because Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a Compatibility Layer capable of Running Windows Apps on several POSIX-compliant OSes systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.
Instead, of Simulating internal Windows Logic like a Virtual Machine or Emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls On-the-Fly, eliminating the Performance and Memory Penalties of other Methods and allowing you to Cleanly Integrate Windows Apps into your Desktop.
Finally, this guide includes detailed instructions about to Getting-Started with Wine Installing Windows Software on Mint.
1. Launching Terminal
How to QuickStart with Command Line on Mint
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