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Not sure what your goals are with wine, but if it just to play some games, let me suggest that you take a look at portingkit, which does a lot of the wine heavy lifting for you. Maybe that'll meet your needs. https://portingkit.com. Source: over 2 years ago
Thanks for your reply, it's basically a way to have a library of wine wrappers: https://portingkit.com. Source: over 2 years ago
Porting kit is a free wine based solution. Doesn’t work as well as crossover but it’s free https://portingkit.com/. Source: over 2 years ago
It's running fine for me with https://portingkit.com on my M1 Air 8GB. Source: over 2 years ago
Your options include: Parallels with Windows 11 ARM Insider Preview, Crossover 21, WineSkin, PlayOnMac, or Porting Kit. Source: over 2 years ago
You can get Lutris: It's an open source launcher that you login into with GOG account and it will download the games and wrap them with Wine, similar to Steam. https://lutris.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you... Source: 5 months ago
Can I suggest you head over to the lutris.net site and follow the link the lutris discord - with what you are describing, it would take me 20 minutes to get the base battle.net working so you can see what is causing your issue or 3 days back and forwards here. As a hint, your wine version has known issues, and unless you manually installed the lutris 0.5.14 from the git page in Mint, or are running flatpak, you... Source: 5 months ago
As a data point, you can run a fair number of Windows games under Proton by using Lutris instead of Steam: * https://lutris.net * https://github.com/lutris/lutris It's an OSS game launcher that takes the place of Steam, and you can set things up to run locally so you don't even need an account on their system (lutris.net). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
My advice would be to go to Protondb first and look at your Steam games and how it would fit. They are graded at Gold/Platinum/Silver in terms of compatibility. Alternatively you can try Lutris if your game is not in Steam. I think there are a few others but I can't recall any. Source: 5 months ago
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