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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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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.
The point is that every one of us started out knowing very little about Linux in the beginning.