Migrating To Linux. Reinstall All Games?

[bigtrev85]

Hello comunnity. I have a quick question. I'm installing Linux on my machine for the first time. Wanted to give it a try. I hear that it's possible to run games on Linux with a program called Wine. If I do this, will I need to reinstall all my steam games? Or will I be able to access them from there current installation on Windows 7? Just not sure how this works. Thanks.

 

[skittle]

yeah, you will need to reinstall them.
Dont expect things to go 100% smooth, remember that it is NOT windows. WINE just provides a reverse engineered windows library so things will work.

To help install things, and be more windows like, i suggest using a wine front end like http://www.playonlinux.com/en
*note* source based games generally work without much work

 

[bigtrev85]

Best answer selected by bigtrev85.

 

[bigtrev85]

yeah, you will need to reinstall them.
Dont expect things to go 100% smooth, remember that it is NOT windows. WINE just provides a reverse engineered windows library so things will work.

To help install things, and be more windows like, i suggest using a wine front end like http://www.playonlinux.com/en
*note* source based games generally work without much work

Thank you very much for your answer.