Postby cx405 » 05 Dec 2015 11:11

I So, you want to play your win32 games in Linux. Why do you use PlayOnLinux instead of global (system) wine?

II But why do you install system wine version, if you don't use it anyway?

::sarcasm mode on::

III But how can you use PlayOnLinux-only wine versions, without global wine present in your system?!



Isn't it great when people don't understand the reason why you created something?Because with PoL you can:1)each game from other using PREFIX (referred as "bottles" in crossover) !1.1) you canand extract it at any time on any machine. No re-installation needed. It will run!1.2) applyto each game2) you can, because PoL allows to download and use it. Some wine version runs better with specific game than other! Some can use specific patch!2.1) Your system wine version, yet with PoL you can grab about any wine version.Because the system wine version:1) isby anyone outside of PlayOnLinux. It is so good to have 300 MiB of HDD space wasted!2)(*.desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications). It gladly opens text documents with Wine Notepad instead of Kwrite or Gedit! Isn't it splendid?3)! Any windows virus that uses WinAPI or even .Net can unpack itself into the system, delete or corrupt files - especially user documents, attempt to encrypt them. Perhaps even inject itself into other windows binaries, in case you have some in your archive files (rar, 7z, zip etc)!4) If you offer user-friendly distribution with globally installed Wine to your friend, you can be assured that. But because Linux never did this -> it does not have resident Windows Antivirus for Windows binaries! So the next email attachment with a windows virus your friend will execute by said mechanism, will do maximum infection damage until it possibly breaks somewhere, because Wine is still not perfect to mimic windows (infection of archived binary may fail - netherless it may corrupt the archive; also it may corrupt local (binaries which belong to user, not root) ELF or a.out attempting to infect it, but they will ofc fail,unless its a specifically written Wine-compatible virus).Of course, if you used just PoL to run windows software, you wouldn't be exposed to all this.Your Linux machine would refuse to run any windows software, except via PlayOnLinux - and even then, only those you put in your prefix.You just make package like this.It will pull and secure all dependencies typically required to run Wine; without actually installing Wine globally.So you can run PlayOnLinux, get any Wine version there, associate it to your profile and run it just locally. Nice and secure.Of course the content you put and run in your profile should be not infected. So, get your games and software from official sources/publishers! As with any other platform.