~~Ho-tay. Longtime GNU/Debian user here. First time I’m ever touching Wine to launch a Windoze application. The application I’m trying to run is YUMI, which is (Your USB Multiboot Installer), aka PenDriveLinux. Site’s been around forever (2002?) and I’ve used this tool pre-Linux days. Good tool.
Link to official site: [(https://pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/)]
~~Followed everything to the T, no dice when doing wine YUMI-exFAT* in the same directory YUMI-exFAT*.exe is in. I get two errors:
Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found.
Searched online, and retried this time with wine64 and wine32 arriving at the same above 2 errors.
So then I went through WineHQ’s step-by-step installation for Debian 12 “Bookworm” stable. Retried, same 2 errors.
Running wine explorer to get a GUI of WINE going, I’m able to reach the Windoze YUMI*.exe file, it is listed as an Application under the Type column… and I throw an “Invalid Handle” error when launching from there.
What am I missing here? edit:link~~~~
Downloaded YUMI*.exe again, and this time it worked. Corrupted previous file, disregard the above.
To not answer your question, is there a reason you’re not using ventoy instead?
Probably the binary blobs.
Ventoy uses binary blobs which can’t be trusted to be free of malware or compliant to their licenses. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/404663 See the following Issues for context: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795 https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224
Source: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/c6f52ebd45e5925c188d1a20119978aa4ffd5ef6/pkgs/by-name/ve/ventoy/package.nix#L213 (nixpkgs git repo)
I will admit that I still use ventoy though.