![]() ![]() In Zorin menu (well, whiskermenu), I go to " Wine" and Whatsapp is not there. ![]() I click it again, and the installer goes away, normal screen this time. Eventually screens returns to as before, including the installer again waiting for me to click Finish. I complete the installer's steps, and click " Finish" (leaving "Run Whatsapp Portable" unselected, as something I saw earlier in PlayOnLinux suggested avoiding launching app on finish).Įntire screen goes black for a bit. Looks like "Run anyway" was the right choice. Yay! A Windows installer wizard starts up. debs involves clicking "Run anyway", I choose that. What is the difference between "running" and "launching"? No idea, no explanation, no help button.Īs my experience of installing. It also gives two buttons at bottom: " Run anyway" and " Launch" (highlighted). WTF? The entire point of all this is precisely to avoid WhatsApp Web and get the real thing. exe and click "Open with Install Windows Application".Ī message pops up with the headline " You can use WhatsApp on the web". TLDR: Option 2 (WhatsApp for Windows Portable version from PortApps in Wine) did not work for me.Īnd now here's the long version, so anyone else who needs WhatsApp on Zorin can learn from my mistakes.Īfter losing time trying to understand whether or not I have/should use/can use/can learn PlayOnLinux, winetricks, wineprefixes etc to install the whatsapp-portable.exe I've downloaded, I say "f#$k it" and just right click on the. ![]() Just having it on their phone could make that person a target for investigation/punishment. Things like WeChat, Skype and Zoom are acceptable to the mainland authorities, WhatsApp is excusable for someone working In HK, but things like Signal are out of the question. Again, I know nothing about making that work and whether I could realistically expect my mum to do it whenever she needs to use WhatsApp.Īs for alternatives to WhatsApp, it would need to be something that wouldn't get a Chinese person in Hong Kong (and who often travels back to mainland China) into trouble just for having on their phone. I see a few comments about something called "Weston" to allow a "nested Wayland session" within X11. I know nothing about switching from X11 to Wayland, what that would involve or how that would affect everything else on this system. Waydroid only works in a Wayland session manager In the tutorial video, it specifies running in Wayland but I'm in X11. So before I attempt anything, any tips, experiences etc from y'all would be much appreciated, thanks. as it's pretending to be a phone, would it need a phone number, and would that interfere with WhatsApp on her real phone? Would it be easier for my mum than VM Windows option?)Īre there any other possibilities I haven't mentioned here? Docker? WhatsApp for Android in an Android emulator.a single shortcut to start VM and WhatsApp)? Is there a really lightweight way to do it? And a way I can make it easy for my non-tech-savvy mum to use (e.g. Also I wonder if this old laptop (~2012 HP Pavilion G4, AMD Radeon, 3.4gib RAM) has the power to run a VM at the same time as everything else and still stay "snappy". It's been years since I've used a virtual machine. WhatsApp for Windows in a Windows Virtual Machine.I've seen a few comments saying that this "portable" version is easier to get working in Wine than the official installer, but I've never heard of Portapps.io before today. Portapps version of WhatsApp for Windows in Wine.And that's just the Wine part, before even getting into anything like PlayOnLinux, Lutris, Bottles. A lot of it is over my head, and now every time I search WineHQ to try to understand better, I get a message saying I'm not allowed to search for x seconds. this version of winestaging vs that version of winestaging). wrong type of user account, Wine versions, wine prefixes, winetricks, wine staging) many with multiple variables (e.g. I've seen mention of multiple issues (e.g. It seems this is very tricky to get working (and even trickier to get working voice calls). So that leaves a few options that I'd like to get the forum users tips or experience on. (And 99.9% of what I find on the web about WhatsApp on Linux involves one of those web wrappers.) And therefore anything that's just a wrapper around WhatsApp Web, like all the Linux "desktop clients" WhatsDesk, WhatsApp-for-linux, Ferdi/Franz, Rambox etc cannot do voice calls either. My mum now needs WhatsApp voice calls on her laptop. ![]()
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