Re: Flawless PopPeeper in Linux
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 12:34 pm
Ok, I decided to see what I could see.
The preliminaries:
- My old VM for Linux was apparently too old (Mint 20) and I couldn't update anything nor install Wine.
- Downloaded and tried to install the latest Mint (22?). After trying multiple times, it was a failure and I gave up.
- Downloaded and installed the latest Ubuntu. Installation went smooth.
- Went to the app center and installed wine. It didn't seem to do anything. Also installed WineTricks. Clicking on an exe (ie. the poppeeper install file) just showed a basic error. running wine control showed the same results that you mentioned (ie. it's definitely not the same "internet options" that windows has and no "advanced" page to change TLS)
- I then found this guide:
https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-inst ... ble-linux/
And voila:
This was actually difficult to test so I'm not 100% sure. I originally used a newegg newsletter, but when performing thorough tests, it seems that NewEgg's servers may support TLS 1.1. And it also doesn't seem that changing the TLS options in Internet Options always take effect immediately, and then the HTML renderer caches images outside of PP's control so I'd have to constantly test with new images.... yeah, it wasn't fun and why I can't say "100%" sure, but I'd go so far to say "99%" sure.
Also, there was a quirk where if PP tried to show the HTML with images at the same time, the page would be blank. But if PP showed html with blocked images, then unblocking the images would work fine. So one work-around to this (if the html rendering is empty) is to cycle the Options/html options->block remote images. There's probably other methods, but thought I'd mention this in case you see it too.
I then performed one more test -- activating a Pro license, which I was previously under the assumption that it may not work for the same reason that I mentioned earlier -- I didn't think TLS1.2 was supported by WINE. Activation worked.
CONCLUSION:
I am not a linux expert, but I suspect that installing WINE from the App Center is not sufficient. The guide I used was specific to Ubuntu. I have no idea if it will work on Mint. There are some references to ubuntu in some of the commands (specifically, just the one to "add the wine repository"), so all I can say is "use at your own risk" or find a similar guide for Mint. But what I can say is -- maybe it depends on the linux distro (though it presumably depends more on Wine), but it certainly looks like it can work.
The preliminaries:
- My old VM for Linux was apparently too old (Mint 20) and I couldn't update anything nor install Wine.
- Downloaded and tried to install the latest Mint (22?). After trying multiple times, it was a failure and I gave up.
- Downloaded and installed the latest Ubuntu. Installation went smooth.
- Went to the app center and installed wine. It didn't seem to do anything. Also installed WineTricks. Clicking on an exe (ie. the poppeeper install file) just showed a basic error. running wine control showed the same results that you mentioned (ie. it's definitely not the same "internet options" that windows has and no "advanced" page to change TLS)
- I then found this guide:
https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-inst ... ble-linux/
And voila:
This was actually difficult to test so I'm not 100% sure. I originally used a newegg newsletter, but when performing thorough tests, it seems that NewEgg's servers may support TLS 1.1. And it also doesn't seem that changing the TLS options in Internet Options always take effect immediately, and then the HTML renderer caches images outside of PP's control so I'd have to constantly test with new images.... yeah, it wasn't fun and why I can't say "100%" sure, but I'd go so far to say "99%" sure.
Also, there was a quirk where if PP tried to show the HTML with images at the same time, the page would be blank. But if PP showed html with blocked images, then unblocking the images would work fine. So one work-around to this (if the html rendering is empty) is to cycle the Options/html options->block remote images. There's probably other methods, but thought I'd mention this in case you see it too.
I then performed one more test -- activating a Pro license, which I was previously under the assumption that it may not work for the same reason that I mentioned earlier -- I didn't think TLS1.2 was supported by WINE. Activation worked.
CONCLUSION:
I am not a linux expert, but I suspect that installing WINE from the App Center is not sufficient. The guide I used was specific to Ubuntu. I have no idea if it will work on Mint. There are some references to ubuntu in some of the commands (specifically, just the one to "add the wine repository"), so all I can say is "use at your own risk" or find a similar guide for Mint. But what I can say is -- maybe it depends on the linux distro (though it presumably depends more on Wine), but it certainly looks like it can work.