I am a little taken aback by the OS/hobby comment. Ubuntu is an
OS: what did you expect it to be? For me, it is also a hobby. That
is to say, installing and testing various OS'es is a hobby.

That said, why are you so hung up on Wine? If you have windows
software to run, just run it in windows. Problem solved.

After all, I'm guessing that you aren't trying to run any linux
software in a windows environment, so why get frazzled trying to do
the reverse.

Well, that's my two-cents worth. Have a great day in whichever OS
works for you.