You forgot WineGUI (https://github.com/winegui/WineGUI)

I don’t really install it anymore. I use zorin which has wine and play on linux installed by default. I plan to try using bazzite which has steam and I assume enough installed for my casual uses of wine.

I don’t get the purpose of this post. The title and what you listed are not the same thing.

You listed a mix of apps and wine versions, all those usually assume you already have wine to satisfy dependencies, that’s not how to install wine.

You install wine (staging for gaming) from your distro repositories.

What is your end goal? There are a lot of different ways to install Wine for different purposes.

If it’s just to run a arbitrary binary, I use Heroic and add it as a non-Epic/Amazon game. Different Wine/Proton versions can be downloaded in the settings.

You can also add them to Steam as non-steam game and enable compatibility mode in the settings.

Btw, is there a CLI utility to choose and keep a specific wine version? Some games have issues ranging from none over no ground texture to not launching at all from one update to the next. Some productive software too.

Install wine-staging through your package manager. Every tool you mentioned on relies on that or does something similar itself.

That said, this is an XY problem - what are you actually trying to do?

Install wine-staging through your package manager.

Install these extra programs if you need the things that they do.

The most basic version, just install from your distro’s repository if it has one. On Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc., for example, it"s sudo apt install wine.

If you’re on Steam, just enable compatibility, and Steam will handle everything for you, though do note you can only use their version of Wine (“Proton”) when launching through their launcher or calling the executable file directly.

If you’re on Heroic Launcher, there’s a menu for handling Wine versions, including downloading, and using is the same as Steam’s.

Can’t remember other methods now.

I usually install it orally. Usually.

Just use Bottles. Play on Linux is dead.

I suppose it depends mostly on what you intend to do.

FWIW, Wine makes you potentially vulnerable to malware that targets M$ otherwise. As such, I prefer sandboxed solutions. This used to be Bottles for me. However, currently, I don’t have any need for it; I play my games through the Heroic flatpak and don’t need Wine outside of that.