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Awesome work btw, thanks! Seems like Wine will actually be even more relevant if increasing Steambox support allows more people to ditch windows (I still have

• YokoZar 13y ago
  I would really like it if Wine steam and Linux steam played better together. At the moment you have to log out of Linux steam, open Wine steam, and then launch a Windows game. It would be much more straightforward to just have the Linux steam be aware of the Wine install of the Windows game. One solution is to just port all the old apps with Wine wrappers so that Windows steam isn't needed. Another solution is to just have both steams open together (Valve has promised multiple simultaneous login support in the near future, as it's a requirement of home streaming). Another option would be to have full-on support for detecting Wine within Linux steam and offering to run your windows games using community-derived Wine settings (akin to playonlinux or winetricks). That would be kind of radical, but I don't think they'd be gutsy enough to go that route. Yet another option would be to simply endorse porting with Wine and tell developers how easy it is and how much money they could make by porting the back catalog. Last time I asked Valve didn't want to endorse a particular porting technology, but perhaps they'd change their minds if one was good enough and it meant developers would be more willing to port games with it.