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Interesting. Is that just Wine itself, or does Ubuntu/GNOME/whoever have some special sauce that facilitates the seamless desktop integration?
by rcthompson 11y ago
Interesting. Is that just Wine itself, or does Ubuntu/GNOME/whoever have some special sauce that facilitates the seamless desktop integration?
- FatalBaboon 11y agoNo real special sauce, but you have winetricks which has a few things to help solve common problems, and then winehq.org to see if others made a particular software/game on Linux. I've found it to work remarkably well with games. Basically install Steam from Wine and then install Steam games like you normally would. It mostly just works. I also installed and played "Path of Exile" through Wine with no problems. It's a fast, online hack 'n slash where if I died I would have to start over tens of hours of gameplay and Wine never let me down on latency or anything.
- zanny 11y agoWine does it everywhere. The way prefixes work it simlinks the traditional Windows file system heirarchy to Linux, such that XDG_DESKTOP_DIR or XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR will become the Windows Desktop / My Documents folders. It also generates .desktop files for Windows programs entries that populate your ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs folder and are thus indexed by most desktop application launchers. That means when I install Skyrim on Linux it shows up in krunner.