Now having said all of that, let’s begin with the installation of Wine 5.0 first. I know that seems a mouthful, but don’t worry the performance remains quite good and more than usable for light applications.
To cut things short, you will be basically using Windows applications through a compatibility layer called Wine which will run inside the Linux container. In case, you are wondering what is Wine, well, it’s a compatibility layer that allows you to use Windows apps in a Linux environment without going through the emulation route. Having done that, here we will begin by installing the latest version of Wine (5.0) on our Chromebook. Before we begin, make sure you have set up Linux on your Chromebook properly.