Windows Games On Linux, WINE & PlayOnLinux

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.

I may just be lazy; I use POL because it works well enough for me that I can play Skyrim, and Oblivion in the same Steam for Windows interface.

Two Words: Steam-Skyrim

A correction, PlayOnLinux doesn't use a different installation of Wine for each game, it uses a different Wine prefix. I.e. binary installation of Wine is the same, but environment of each game can be isolated in order not to affect other games. And PlayOnLinux allows easily switching Wine version for each game prefix (for example when newer Wine comes out) as well as using different versions of Wine for different games when that is really needed.

Essentially PlayOnLinux is useful as Wine manager which allows decoupling prefix from the Wine version and isolating games from each other. I practically never use those installation scripts, and prefer manual installation in PlayOnLinux (since those scripts usually use older Wine than the most recent available in PlayOnLinux). But they are useful to look up some specific settings if default installation doesn't produce useable result.

I am very grateful for wine but I still don't understand why there is no support beyond DX9 after this many years.

All you have to do is reverse engineer some directx libs. Easy right? Ha.

I am very grateful for wine but I still don't understand why there is no support beyond DX9 after this many years.

I get the impression that most of the people who get paid to work on Wine aren't developing support for games.

Beyond that, it's down to whatever enthusiasm/passion volunteers have, and it's a huge undertaking to get that sort of stuff working. I can't blame anybody who feels they have better stuff to do with their time than reimplementing Microsoft's APIs :D

! 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!

But you don't need to use wine for spotify - there's a Linux client if you look for it!

https://www.spotify.com/uk/download/previews/