All this time I've been using native Steam on Linux and playing only those games which Steam supports on Linux.

Last week, however, I bought some games which were on sale but were Windoze only. I don't really like to support devs who don't support Linux, but once in a (loooong) while I make an exception. In this case I actually made the exception for the sake of a test. I was curious to see how well Steam would work on Wine, and if I could play windoze games that way. I figured it was a good opportunity to test this since the games were on massive sale (and I mean like pennies).

All in all I'm really impressed with how far things have come. Installing Steam on PlayonLinux was incredibly easy, since it's one of the built-in pre-configured options. Just pick it out of the list and go. It gave an error message and said that PlayonLinux had crashed towards the end of the installation, but it didn't seem to matter. By that point the Steam app was already up and running and downloading updates for itself. After it was done I logged in and installed the new windoze games and played for a while.

It was a little bit laggy, not that noticeable but definitely not as fast or smooth as if I were playing in the native version, but overall I was quite pleased. It's best I think if used with undemanding games, unless you have a high end computer.



tags: steam