wine is a program that converts win32 executables into programs that can run
natively on *nix systems. This is very awesome, and enables you to use software
that would otherwise be unavailable to you (such as MS office, games, etc).
As a user-friendly alternative to managing wine directly (managing multiple wine versions, prefixes etc)
a program called playonlinux was created to wrap around it. It is very convenient.
Documentation
Notes
Performance
General
Nvidia
# enable threaded optimizations in GL drivers
__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1
# disable the opengl shading language (but graphics suffer)
winetricks glsl-disable
Tools
Examples