PlayOnLinux - a joke?

[incognito9]

Play on Linux creates a completely new wine environment for each game you install and a script to configure wine for many games that require tweaks. It causes some complications. It's a bit of a pain to apply a patch to a game, for instance. The patch either needs to be supported by POL or you need to set up an environment variable to point to the correct wine installation. Not a show-stopper (for me) but a bit of a pain.

The goal, I guess, is to take the research out of getting a game to work on linux by scripting the install and configuration. So far it hasn't quite been that easy in my experience, and I tend to prefer to install with wine and browse the application database for reports on how to get things working.

YMMV

[TaraIkeda]

Playonlinux seems pretty viable here, it seems able to do IE7 for those who need it for those annoying IE only sites