Run windows programs on Chromebook using Wine

Chromebooks don't run Windows programs natively. However, you use Wine, a Linux application to run and install Windows programs on your Chromebook. Here's how.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:30 What's Wine?
00:51 Enable Linux on Chromebook
01:49 Install Wine
02:31 Download Windows Software(VLC Media player)
02:55 Move.exe File to Linux file system
03:32 Wine configurations
03:52 Fix Mouse and Keyboard issues
04:16 Install Windows Software(VLC)
05:23 How to start Windows App
07:10 Limitations of using Wine

[@Deathshack]

I've been using Linux for 15 years and also own a Chromebook plus, the easiest way to run windows applications without having any headaches is to enable flatpak support and then install (Bottles) Wine is good but directly installing it for the average user is too complicated and there are way to many mechanics involved which is why (bottles) and (lutris) exists to prevent breakage because wine is already bundled with the application!

[@DignitedTV]

Flatpak are already really huge packages. For an entry level Chromebook that comes with 64GB of storage, I don't see how this can work. First the Linux container itself takes about 10GB minimum of storage. Perhaps it should work best with premium Chromebooks.

[@Seven71987]

Bottles is also more approprite for all ages than Wine.
Which is good to me because I am 16. My Chromebook is at 12 GB on Linux container

[@ddiaz39]

Package "wine32" has no installation candidate. Can you please help me?

[@devinwalker7937]

the video you watched is a lie just ignore this stupid video

[@kroshanngaming1442]

bro it is really usefull. It helped me

[@A-200TechAndRoblox]

oon terminal it said 'E: Package 'wine32' has no installation candidate'

[@XxRxvengexX-cj1gr]

It says could not open lock file

[@KiddyTech8764]

You were wrong about what is Wine because you said it was an emulator but WINE stands for "Wine Is Not An Emulator". It is a compatibility layer.

[@DignitedTV]

Nice catch 😁

[@Hiba_alch]

Hello I got to 4:32 and when I write wine and the file name it tells me “it looks like wine32 is missing, you should upload it what should I do? Please help

[@DavidOkwii]

Did you run sudo apt get install wine32 as showed in 2:13 ?

[@Hiba_alch]

@@DavidOkwii when I tried to do that is said that package wine32 is not available so I put wine instead is that wrong??

[@user-cp4bn4uh3r]

i tried running a game and i kept getting
0009:err:dmloader:IDirectMusicLoaderImpl_SetObject : could not attach stream to file L"C:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\gm.dls", make sure it exists
i dont have any music or text when playing the game...

[@kira_kako3769]

Is it windows 11?

[@mohammedhussein-cr4hb]

does It work for Roblox ?

[@sk-vm1fq]

Wine32 is not installing plz tell what to do as my Chromebook is 64 bit

[@DignitedTV]

What error does it give?

[@osumaniabetterthenfnf]

it says package wine has no installation candidate

[@DignitedTV]

Type wine32

[@oliviahernandez6188]

mine just keeps saying - bash wine not found when i go to type winecfg

[@DignitedTV]

Looks like wasn't installed properly. Try following the steps again

[@JesusOnaRampage]

You can use:
‘sudo apt purge wine32 wine64’
Then type:
‘sudo apt autoremove’
Do this before any new attempts to reinstall wine again

[@semtem6456]

Hey i have error

[@DignitedTV]

What's the error?

[@jjjjulian]

linux is pronounces as lee-nuhx

[@DavidOkwii]

I am totally used to saying ly-nux

[@hudsnotded]

Linux is pronounced Linux

[@dragonmplays1771]

/usr/bin/winecfg: 46: exec: /usr/bin/wine: Exec format error /help me

[@DignitedTV]

It's likely Wine didn't install properly. Try again

[@sk-vm1fq]

wine32 is not installing plz tell what to do 😢