Difference between lutris, winetricks, and playonlinux?

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Lutris and Playonlinux basically do the same thing. They give you install scripts for windows games and those scripts install a validated combination of wine version, modules and parameters so that the windows app run with this configuration.

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BingBong

I've dabbled in Linux while in college after being forced to use it for calculus labs. So I started with Xubuntu 8.04. Then continued to try Linux off and on for the following 4 years. In 2016 or so I decided to setup a rpi running nextcloud so this is where I really got me feet wet with Linux. Now I'm in love with it and use it on my main machine (still have a win10 partition for a couple games that won't run in Linux though). All of that said I am really not super knowledgeable (4 out of 10)and I hope to one day answer more questions than I ask. I enjoy video games, hiking, camping, hunting, and of course, learning more and more about Linux.

Updated on September 18, 2022

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BingBong over 1 year

I understand they all use WINE, and I have a slight understanding of what WINE does. But I don't really understand the difference between the mentioned softwares, and why or when to use one over the other. Thanks
- WinEunuuchs2Unix about 5 years
  
  When it's gaming time I boot with Windows 10. Then I use Ubuntu 16.04 within Windows Subsystem for Linux to run BASH and a few GUI's like gedit and my own GUI Linux scripts. It's another option to consider.
BingBong over 4 years

This is pretty old, but what about Wine Tricks? When or why would you use that over Lutris or Playonlinux?