23rd March 2017, 10:54
Hi,
You should already be able to install wine 1.8 through Synaptic for example, since Maui provides the Ubuntu wine ppa, which contains wine 1.8. Just check the available version - it should be there.
As for that article, it's quite paranoid from my perspective and not entirely true
But if you want to isolate wine from the rest of your linux files, it's quite easy, but removes some flexibility. Via winecfg you can remove the "drives" that point to your linux directories and remove the desktop integration completely, so the wine "Windows environment" will not "see" the linux stuff. Of course, if you are VERY paranoid, then indeed you can sandbox it, but from my perspective, it's an overkill.
You should already be able to install wine 1.8 through Synaptic for example, since Maui provides the Ubuntu wine ppa, which contains wine 1.8. Just check the available version - it should be there.
As for that article, it's quite paranoid from my perspective and not entirely true
But if you want to isolate wine from the rest of your linux files, it's quite easy, but removes some flexibility. Via winecfg you can remove the "drives" that point to your linux directories and remove the desktop integration completely, so the wine "Windows environment" will not "see" the linux stuff. Of course, if you are VERY paranoid, then indeed you can sandbox it, but from my perspective, it's an overkill.