How to run Roon on Wine Stable with any supported version of Ubuntu (and derivatives)

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Sadly this is not working for me anymore and hours of messing has not brought a solution. It started with a Wine update in Kubuntu resulting in washed out windows, Roon albeit working. Then the input field for search stopped taking input. Now after reinstalling both wine and Roon via the script, Roon comes up fine but crashes as soon as I select an Audio zone.
Several attempts at running Roon in Windows in a docker and 2 different VMs has stalled with a display error.
I’m not coming back to Windows as an OS so I can’t really use Roon the way I want.

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Usually because you’re missing the DLL-override for windows.media.mediacontrol (set to disabled).

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That’s a current Wine 11 issue. Use winehq-stable 10.0.

Try this. First remove the current version.

# Remove Wine packages and configuration files
sudo apt purge "wine*"
sudo apt autoremove --purge

# Remove Wine directory from home folder
rm -rf ~/.wine

# (Optional) Remove residual configuration files
rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -rf ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -rf ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/wine*

# Clean up APT
sudo apt update
sudo apt autoclean

Then install Wine 10.0.

CODENAME=`lsb_release --codename | cut -f2`

# Use dpkg --print-foreign-architectures to check if already installed
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

# Add the WineHQ repository
sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key -
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ "https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/$CODENAME/winehq-$CODENAME.sources"
sudo apt update

# Install Wine 10.0
sudo apt install wine-stable=10.0.0.0~$CODENAME-1 wine-stable=10.0.0.0~$CODENAME-1 wine-stable-i386=10.0.0.0~$CODENAME-1 wine-stable-amd64=10.0.0.0~$CODENAME-1 --yes
printf '\n# Use Wine 10.0.0.0\nPATH=$PATH:/opt/wine-stable/bin\n' >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile

# Check the version
wine --version
wine-10.0

# Now hold  back updates.
sudo apt-mark hold wine-stable wine-stable-i386 wine-stable-amd64
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