Tangled up in wine

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I've got in all sort of tangles messing about with wine and wine prefixes and am quite confused by the system wine and what uses it.

Also had various errors about it not being a 64bit wine prefix (which I think it is). So all in all I'm pretty confused as to a) what state my system is in and b) the correct way to work with wineprefixes/system wine.

Anyway current issue is I was trying to install yabridge so that I can work with windows VST plugins and it requires a more recent wine and suggested installing wine-staging

I've now uninstalled that but trying to run a 64bit exe with wine my-64bit-executable.exe results in errors about it not being a 64bit wine. I did try with wine64 too but that's not found.

This is the sort of error I get:

wine64 LX480_Essentials_Windows_v2.2.3.exe 
wine: '/home/john/.wine' is a 32-bit installation, it cannot support 64-bit applications.

Can anyone give me a beginners run-down on how I should be doing all this stuff correctly? I've tried looking in the wine docs but often end up more confused that when I started.

For most application stuff I'm now using bottles, which I find much easier to manage, but some things seem to rely on the system wine, I think anyway.

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The thing that I don't understand is why when we install Windows App Support we don't have the most basic and commonly required libraries. If it had a utility to choose which additional Windows software or libraries to install since the beginning the user will have had almost no issues on launching its Windows software. Here below :point_down: there are 2 reasons for why users won't feel comfortable in using them, the process is often long and boring.

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