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OpenMandriva Lx version:
OpenMandriva Lx release 25.06 (ROME) Rolling for znver1
Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
Plasma 6
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I’m having trouble understanding how the different wine-related packages are intended to be used (I have a number of Windows games as well as audio plugins that I’d like to run):
- It appears that
dnf only supports having one of ‘wine’, ‘proton’ or ‘proton-experimental’ installed at any one time.
protonplus appears to be some sort of manager for multiple versions, but it’s not clear how to use or switch between them.- When things (inevitably) don’t work, what is the best way to debug the issues?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
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Hi! Welcome to OpenMandriva.
I think it is intended to be that way. If you need multiple versions of wine for some reason, you might as well use Lutris as your wine applications manager. It is really useful.
Protonplus is a neat little piece of software that does the same thing but for proton versions. Proton is a customization of wine by valve, and proton itself is customized by some others, and protonplus enables you to use those versions. I suppose you could try using it paired with Lutris, as in, install an application through Lutris and select the runner as one of the versions of proton downloaded with protonplus, if you need to. I myself only really use proton on Steam, proton-ge to be more specific, so I just need to have that changed on the Steam application.
If something doesn’t work, I believe you need to report that to those who make proton or wine, as it would be their call to have fixed. I am not sure you are gonna run into anything, but please keep in mind that Wine is a compatibility layer which may or may not run all windows software, so if you need mission critical things and they are only available in Windows…
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Using Lutris to select runtimes (downloaded via ProtonPlus) and manage prefixes seems to be the way so far.
Still got lots of issues to resolve, but one thing at a time, eh? 
Thanks for the help.
No problem man, glad to help.
My wine experience has been hit or miss, then a lot of stability. Again, the software isn’t mission-critical, so I can deal with some bug fixing. Let us know if you find anything you need help with.
Fox
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