Starting from Wine 2.8, the simple symlink-editing method of configuration doesn't work. One has to configure COM ports by editing Wine registry. From Wine User's Guide/Other Things to Configure/Serial and Parallel Ports: To override Wine's default device mapping, run wine regedit and create string entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wine\Ports where the entry name is the Windows device ...
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That is a pretty old guide. To install DirectX, I suggest using a new tool included with wine called winetricks. This tool allows a simple way to: install some basic components (typically Microsoft DLLs and fonts) and tweak settings required for some applications to run correctly under Wine. When you type winetricks into a terminal, you will be prompted by a GUI that will allow you to Select a ...
wine - How can I run DirectX games on Linux? - Super User
If this stuff works it will be a lot better running Linux binaries in Windows than using say WINE in Linux where you run Windows binaries in Linux -- for some things you don't need a full blown Virtual Machine so this IMO is a great move in Windows.
The advices you've found when googling make sense. Linux users don't give such advices because they are elitist or mean or whatever. Some notorious text editors, notably vim and emacs, have both Linux and Windows versions. Notepad++ doesn't, even if it's based on scintilla, which is not tied to a single OS. You have a problem with notepad++ and if it doesn't run well via wine, your option is ...