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There is a nice explanation on this Gaminonlinux article: Basically, if you buy a Steam game from Linux, it is considered a Linux sale if in the first 7 days more minutes are played on this platform than on Windows or OSX or if you didn't touch at all (0 minutes).

Sorry to join this discussion very late, as usual. I think everyone of us would like that every game had a native Linux port but we all know that is not going to happen and, IMHO, it will stay this way for a very long time, if not forever. And yet, I constantly read from those zealots at the...

I am a little late joining this thread but in my previous tests I didn't find any difference between vanilla Wine and Wine-Staging in Playonlinux: the situation has changed now because, after stumbling upon this video, I tested Crysis, which I had previously installed following Booman's...

Yes, it does. Having said that, however, in my opinion you shouldn't bother with a UT2004 native installation guide. Even if it worked, it would be certainly more complicated than the POL one and more intimidating for less experienced Linux users who might stumble upon it after a Google search...

There was an interesting discussion on Reddit some time ago about eON, focused in part on the poor performance of Witcher 2, a game which was ported using that technology. The Bioshock Infinite port, however, seems to receive mostly praise. I bought the game on sale a while back because it was...

No doubt right now the Windows version with PlayOnLinux is much easier to install than the native one for the simple reason that with the latter you have to: 1) find and install the libstdc++5 library 2) install the libsdl1.2 library and symlink it to the UT system folder with ln -s...

I was able to install this game with PlayOnLinux using wine version 1.4. Unfortunately I can't remember if I added any package using the "install components" tag, but I can tell you that I solved my mouse problem enabling the "mouse override option" in the Miscellaneous tag. I tested the game...

Yes, I installed it on POL without adding anything, but it was already working natively on my system. So right now I have BOTH the Linux and Windows versions on my PC! I understand that this is a little wasteful and given that I agree with you that PlayOnLinux is probably the best option I...

Hi Booman, it occurred to me after reading your reply that the reason for the large downloads was that UT2004 was the first game I was installing on my Ubuntu 14.04 MATE partition (a 1 Tb hard disk) while all my other POL, native and Steam for Linux games are on the other (almost full) hard...

I have a couple of observations. I tried to install UT2004 (DVD edition) following this excellent guide but, once selected the extra pakages suggested, I found out that POL kept downloading very large libraries, particularly one called “windows XP Ksomething” (316 megabytes). I stopped the...

@ mrdeathjr28 I guess that you stick with regular Wine. Reading more carefully their home page, I found interesting that Fedora On this page they say that their version can coexist with vanilla Wine; I think I'll try it.

Hi allenskd, I know I am late joining this thread but I recently stumbled upon Wine-Staging so I wanted to ask you (or anybody else for that matter) if you have any opinion about this project. On a recent Reddit post someone asked if this could work with POL, but there was no definitive...

Hi allenskd, I am really surprised Manjaro didn't work for you. I am an Ubuntu User, but I tried Manjaro Openbox on 2 different machines (64 and 32bit, both with Nvidia cards), and every time I was stunned how easy and fast I was able to set up everything, although I did notice some annoying...

Thank you for the quick reply but now I have a couple of follow up questions. What do you mean when you say you have compiled wine 1.7.30, 1.7.28 and 1.7.13? Are all of these versions installed on your system at the same time? I know it is possible to do that, but IMHO PlayOnLinux does this job...

@mrdeathjr28 May I ask you how do you use Wine? Do you install your games on separate prefixis? What about regressions, I mean if a game was working with an older version of Wine and with the latest update doesn't work anymore, how are you able to fix it, do you go back to the older Wine? And...

I am a little embarrassed to say that, although I bought the game as soon as it appeared on Steam (mostly because I wanted to support the publishers for porting the game on my favorite OS), I have yet to play it. Apparently there are some differences in the gameplay, particularly in the MP...

Hi Booman, just a quick note to let you know that your guide is just as useful to install the DVD version of the game. I used wine version 1.7.8 (I have not bothered to install more recent ones yet) and everything went perfectly well. Of course, with the DVD, you (almost) have to use a no-DVD...

Thanks Booman. Do you recommend this game? I had never heard of it before, and at first, when I read that the version you tried was from GOG.com, I thought it was an old game I somehow missed, so after checking Wikipedia I was surprised to learn it was released this year. I must say that the...

Hi Booman, it has been a while since I installed a game using POL so it is likely I am missing something but I don't understand why on your "downloading Gecko screenshot" I read wine 1.7.8-d3d-doublebuffer (x86) installer. Is this a screenshot from another game?

Apparently, the reason for the removal is a problem in dealing with regional pricing. Thanks to a Reddit post, the best explanation I read seems to be this one.