~~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.
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.