![]() In the task bar of the file manager: Files - Preferences - check: Use the shortcut (key combination) Ctrl h to make the hidden files in your personal folder visible, or do it like this: Close Wine (and all applications that use it). Note: this will cause all Wine settings to be reset to default, all Windows applications to be removed as well as all other contents of the Wine folder!Ī. This is how to kill such a virus (but you can't cure the damage that it may have done to other files in your personal folder!): It's better not to install them.ĭo you need to use some Windows applications? Then use a dual boot computer on which you can also boot Windows, or (better yet) install a free legal Windows 10 Virtual Machine in VirtualBox in Linux.ĭoes your Wine contain a Windows virus? Unfortunately, it might happen. Unsurprisingly, this warning also applies to derivatives of Wine, like CrossOver and PlayOnLinux. ![]() Wine allows Windows malware to do damage to all files in your personal folder, without you noticing it. Also when you change the default Wine folder and limit the number of "drives" that it can access: adequate safeguarding of the other files in your personal folder can't be done. Therefore I don't install Wine in the first place.įor the one or two Windows applications that I still need, I use a Virtual Machine with Windows 10, in VirtualBox (more about that later).ĭo you wish to use Wine anyway? Then sufficient protection of the files in your personal folder is not possible. Like documents, music, pictures et cetera. some Windows viruses and other malware for Windows.Īlthough Windows malware in Wine can't touch your system files (Wine has no root permissions but only user permissions), it might access all of your personal files. This miracle has a distinct and serious disadvantage, however: with Wine, not only some ordinary Windows applications can run in your Linux, but also. As such, it's a small technological miracle. Wine is an application that allows your Linux to run many (not all) Windows applications. That's the optimal solution.īut there's also another "solution", that I strongly discourage: you can install the Windows emulator Wine in your Linux Mint. Or you can use VirtualBox, to install Windows safely within a virtual machine in your Linux. ![]() The disadvantage is, that certain Windows updates might make your Linux unbootable (by replacing bootloader Grub with the Windows bootloader, which doesn't recognize Linux). That way, you'll always be able to boot Windows for that particular application. One acceptable solution (although not optimal) is then, to maintain a dual boot on your computer. ![]() Can't you find an adequate Linux alternative for a particular Windows application? ![]()
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