It may occur that the user needs to run a Windows application or game in Ubuntu and it finds that it cannot install windows programs.
Wine is a piece of software that tricks programs to believe they are running in a Windows environment.
In addition, this article will explain how to install Winetricks libraries needed to run windows, and PlayOnLinux applications to run games.
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