03-16-2023, 05:18 PM
(03-16-2023, 03:56 PM)aurel Wrote: and what about 2GB of RAM...it is enough for normal Windows programs like older browsers
or similar utility programs ,interpreters ..etc,,,
What I meant is that it's at least 2GB to get Wine and its dependencies from repositories (a bunch of 32-bit libraries not installed by default on older Debian/Ubuntu, less of them for Wine v8 on Arch), then "wine-gecko" (chiefly for being able to open CHM files) and "wine-mono" (for "dot-NET" stuff, naming only what the packages are called as per "pacman" program for Arch) which are available separately most of the time, then running "winecfg" on terminal. The two addies are almost 500MB in "pacman"-compressed form I noticed yesterday when I had to reinstall Manjaro onto the growling internal HDD of my main laptop. Running "winecfg" adds at least 500MB more of stuff, maybe more. Especially the army of 32-bit libraries would require more disk space, that's why usually "multilib" isn't enabled for package managers of some Linux systems. Even more space, probably for the "dot-com" interfaces and other exotic stuff would be needed to support 64-bit Windows8 and Windows10 in particular. It's possible to have Wine without "systemd" (Devuan, Slackware) but otherwise, more disk space would be needed for services installed and enabled such as getting the desktop system to recognize an EXE file as something to be started up by Wine, not something it should try to treat as compressed archive.