I got it working on arch / wine and it was a PITA. If I did it again I would use x86 and find a better DE. I like XFCE as a general DE but you pretty much have to unanchor all of your bars or EQ fullscreen will crash, plus many other caveats, like getting fluidsynth working etc. Some DE's will only work in fullscreen, so you kind of have to find what suits your needs. Also, be ready to make tweaks to eqclient.ini in order to get it working. There was at least one setting, I don't remember what it is but it fixes no models, like no character, no NPC's or PCs.
I had intended on making a p99 only system, but didn't get very far before I got frustrated with the whole thing.
I've seen people getting it to work pretty easily on Ubuntu, and I would suggest playonlinux to manage your wine environments.
Pretty much any distro can be installed to a pendrive, the only thing to worry about that is how much you want to trim the fat. But if your new, just try ubuntu with playonlinux. There is a lot of support for many distros out there, but not for P99 so I would go with Ubuntu since you will have better luck finding other people trying to do the same thing you are.
Also when patching EQ using the files downloaded from P99 you have to make sure the case is not different, otherwise you will wind up with 2 files and who knows which will run. Like dsetup.dll and DSETUP.DLL
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