http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58887
--- Comment #9 from Ian superian@gmail.com --- No I haven't installed .NET (the PL3 installer trying and failing to do so was the issue that made it 'garbage' a few years ago - the Ian who did the report on AppDB back in 2019 was me...)
I did let Wine install the Mono it asked to install on initial installation of Wine 10.17, where it's in drive_c/windows/mono/mono-2.0, but it's not installed system wide:
$ mono -V Command 'mono' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install mono-runtime
If I add "WINEDEBUG=+dwrite" to the environmental variables, nothing materially different appears on the terminal output. Am I missing something?