Missing "Wine Windows Program Loader"

Actually the launcher is misplaced in Ubuntu 18+, Ubuntu made a mistake, all the other distributions based on ubuntu including linux mint inherited the bug, nobody cared to fix

Run the below command in terminal

sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/wine-stable/examples/wine.desktop /usr/share/applications/

Now right click the windows app and click open with , you can now see open with "wine windows program loader" in the applications list.

You can remove the wine package by sudo apt purge wine And then install the stable version by sudo apt install wine-stable winehq-stable It works for me.