Roon 2.0 and Linux (Wine) .. is 32bit needed? [answer: no, wine supports 64bit]

Reporting a new working configuration, since roon-on-wine seems to not be working with latest Wine staging or stable these days.

  • Bottles https://usebottles.com/
  • Runner: wine-ge-proton-8-22 (install via Settings > Runners)
  • Create Bottle, select Custom, choose the above runner and 64-bit support.
  • In the bottle, choose Dependencies and install dotnet472 and dotnet48 – this may take some time, it seems to want to install every previous version as well.
  • Once complete, find the Windows Roon Installer (download it) and click Run Executable… and run it to install.
  • Once done, you should be able to run Roon. You can create a desktop shortcut and use normally.

I haven’t tested audio output directly from the bottle; I prefer to run the Roon Bridge natively in Linux and then control it from the remote in Wine, seems more reliable.

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