Will my wine be saved if I upgrade to 18.04?

[johnspack]

Not sure how new I am, but only about 10 months running linux. I do however fully use wine from winhq, as I've come from 20 years of using ms oses, and I need to bring a lot of familiar apps with me...
I was using Kubuntu 17.10 and had got up to staging 3.12 and was working with a lot of windows apps. Now I have to "upgrade" to 18.04 and wine devel 3.6, which is a big step backwards on a new install.
Just brought up a 17.10 install I had in a VM, and it offered to upgrade to 18.04, will this save my winehq 3.12 install or effect that in any way?

[claydoh]

Your files and configs will be kept, but the wine version might be upgraded, but that depends on where you got wine from. If you added an external repo, this will be disabled during the upgrade, so you will have to re-enable it afterward. As you are using wine staging, which is not in the standard repos, most likely wine won't be upgraded at all for you as the versions are newer than what Ubuntu has. At the worst, you would upgrade wine back to where you were when you re-enable the winehq repos.

But your existing files in your /home will not be touched

[johnspack]

Thanks, found that out. But now winehq has added repo for bionic, so everything is back to normal. Only other beef was removal of gksu and kdesudo and commands like macchanger-gtk. Resolved by manually installing macchanger-gtk and creating a policy file for it,
and simply using pkexec. Also works for gedit and many other graphical apps that are usually run in root mode. Happy with Kubuntu again... but really want 18.10 to drop...

[claydoh]

For editing files in Kate/Kwrite, simply open them, edit as needed, then save. If needed, you will be prompted for the password.
Not to belabor the gui-as-root badness, but...... you know...it's baad

[Snowhog]

Not to belabor the gui-as-root badness, but...... you know...it's baad

And 'how bad' can it be you ask? Well, it can be bad.

[johnspack]

I only run macchanger-gtk and gedit with pkexec really. I normally stick to the gui as root rules, and do things from the command line instead. I did start from a command line in dos, long before linux came along...
Just after 20 years you start to get used to guis... and I had to run win for a decade or so before finally finding linux. Just so you know, win10 pushed me here... 20 years of ms products use and they pushed that on me.
10 months ago I went linux immersion, forced myself to use only linux and learn it. Now I love it, and will continue to power learn it for as long as it takes...

[GreyGeek]

Glad you've joined the club of folks who were abused by M$ and moved to Linux. We're getting to be a BIG group!

[johnspack]

I'm trying to bring more MS users over. Win10 is a plague. We need to improve the usability of wine a bit more, one of my pet projects now. I have more MS apps on my desktop than linux ones... of course I also have a term box open at all times.
As an old dos user, I love the command line still, but it's going to take work to move a lot of newer windows users over...

[kc1di]

Some times I find that Playonlinux is a big help. and allows using multiple wine versions easily I have a couple program I use everyday that have no real Linux equivalent yet. and one runs well on older wine version and one on newer so POL works well for me.. If it's games then that is another story.
Welcome aboard Kubuntu

[GreyGeek]

I install one Windows application, IQAN, which is a PLC dev tool. I use WINE to install it and it runs great.



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