Windows Games On Linux, WINE & PlayOnLinux

Well I have to admit that I am using Wine only for hearthstone , such an addictive game

Wine is the reason I was finally able to get rid of Windows. The one game that kept me using windows is World of Warcraft, which runs great for me using wine.

I've used play on Linux once or twice in the past but I'd rather just manually figure stuff out with wine. (I like messing around until something works the way I want it to ;) )

i wanted to use PlayOnLinux but i always felt the interface quite slow and weird
specialy the parts where its configuring something or making shortcuts etc (its like windows with lots of next, next buttons imo)

i'm mostly using my own scripts for standalone wine versions and prefixes
i sometimes use playonlinux compiled wine packages though which i download from here:
http://www.playonlinux.com/wine/binaries/ and then just extract to the place where i want.


my basic scripts are like that: http://pastebin.com/Xhr7K2ty
then also same scripts for winecfg, winetricks and regedit.

i just copy those scripts to new game folder and then modify the game executable :)

that's how i like to keep my stuff organized

I have over 150 Windows games running in Wine and never use POL. I do have multiple prefixes, but I just manually create them. I do use winetricks to get some of the libraries I need installed.

I have to admit I do like PlayonLinux but the bundled scripts are poor. I mainly use it as a manager for multiple Wine installations and then use Wine AppDB for the install guides. The only real problem I have ever had is getting my joypad to work for fighting and platform games.

I recently started using Wine again, and it's surprisingly well done nowadays.

Decided to stop excluding myself from franchises I love just because I'm on Linux, and thankfully Starcraft 2 works well in wine :D

The only game I play, using PoL is World of Tanks. I find the script a good start to easily install the game and then tweak it to have the best Wine version and entries in the wine registry.

For someone new tho Wine, PoL is a great and easy start, but you must know that it might not be the best setup for your game. Often it's a good basis to work with.

Well, I have purchased and used Crossover, and also used PlayOnLinux. I have, to my surprise, gotten better results with POL. I used it to install Skyrim and a couple of others (a lot fewer since CIV V, X-COM, and Borderlands, etc.), and it worked when Crossover didn't.

Nonetheless, I'd not ever seen or tried q4wine, and it looks very good indeed, and major thanks for pointing it out. Of course, when my some of my favorite GOG games are getting Linux versions (even the ones that come as a .tar.gz file that uses wine), I'm using them and removing the POL versions.

Life is good, and the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.:D

POL has been OK on Linux Mint. The main reason was to play EA's Spore. I could not use the keyboard what so ever, but I still could play it. Funny thing, I just uninstalled Steam under POL today..... now I am stating to have second thoughts..... However, I never liked WINE. I find it hard to use and half the time it doesn't even work! I had Spotify under WINE (Not POL mind you) and it was fine, but the icon would glitch out half the time I would have to restart. But....I am sure that other people love WINE, I just one of those people that dislike it. Thanks for the video Were! You have been awesome too!

Before the says of Steam on Linux, I used to use PlayOnLinux all the time to keep all the games in order and manage them in a user friendly way.

Now I barely use it, used it for the first time in maybe 5 months this month to play FF7. Though it's less essential for gaming than it used to be, it will still always be great for those games we know will never get ported.