It didn't work particularly well.
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If you weren’t a software engineer, you probably weren’t getting it to work for anything.
Wine used to involve a lot of black magic and trading configs to get things to work.
With the right incantations, and some luck and a few DLL replacements, you could make things mostly work.
3-D rendering was a shit show earlier on. You just didn’t even try. DirectX was everywhere and unusable. It was probably a slow march, but it felt like a sudden boom when 3D started working and suddenly 2/3 of your games/apps would work natively with a smaller config/spell.
Nothing like the lengthy spell castings of early wine. I summon thee brood wars!
I work with #Wine since that day where you also could copy a whole Windows folder into wine to get it work. Not long after that, I created my first Wine prefix for a Game I still have. For games which already worked I do see difference on the 3d quality. I'm a bit surprised that my 32bit games work without problems but are not able to be used with 32-64bit mixed mode. I'm a bit afraid of their future because I miss some installer or lost licence keys and simply copied the games from Linux to Linux the last 20 years.
Over the year, I'm not anymore a gamer. I collect my games and currently watch the development of #GOW #GamesOnWhales and plan to create a Gameserver for my children.
My problem currently are Business application like from #Autodesk, #Solidworks or similar. Which even not install. And it seems some new UI tools Microsoft introduces and the new store also not work.
For a time it had a commercial fork for gaming called WineX. It mostly handled DirectX and incompatible DRM. Still not nearly as reliable as Proton.
There were also a ton of helper programs like today. The general cycle was:
- Wine on its own works well.
- The more programs you add the worse it works.
- A hip new helper comes along with program specific tweaks.
- The tweaks start being over engineered.
- The tweaks stop working in more and more cases as the Windows programs get updated.
- return to 1.
I honestly thought that Lutris would have reached step 6 by now but so far it seems to be holding on.