wine users - May 2012 - New User.. Just general advice

I know it can be quite irritating when new posters start a thread begging for
help..  so I'll try not to be like that.

My first experience of WINE is that the interface is great for new users..  on
Ubuntu the package installer and "right click on .exe" function is
very intuitive and easy to use.   The installer/uninstaller again very intuitive
for anyone recently migrating from other OSs.

I have tried to install two games since installing wine,  (Wolfenstein and an
older game).  Wolfenstein crashed during installation with not much info given. 
The older game (RTCW) which comes on two disks started installing ok but then
crashed when I inserted the second disk.

So,  I'm kinda giving up a bit.   Is it worth me pushing on,  or as a newbie
to this am I going to get bogged down requiring complex tweeks and mods..?

I appreciate that by trying to install games I'm probably throwing WINE in
at the deep end..  I don't doubt that it works brilliantly with simple apps
and programs etc.

I'd be interested what other users experiences have been..

libspero wrote:
> 
> I have tried to install two games since installing wine,  (Wolfenstein and
an older game).  Wolfenstein crashed during installation with not much info
given.  The older game (RTCW) which comes on two disks started installing ok but
then crashed when I inserted the second disk.
> 
> So,  I'm kinda giving up a bit.   Is it worth me pushing on,  or as a
newbie to this am I going to get bogged down requiring complex tweeks and
mods..?
> 
> 
You didn't say what version of Ubuntu you're using, but if it's 64
bit 12.04, that version is severely broken for Wine, and the problems are not
things that can be worked around with an easy tweak.

Regarding Wolfenstein, the AppDB has many test reports rating it platinum, which
means it should work out of the box. However, I did see at least one test report
mentioning that a no-cd crack is needed, which may or may not be legal where you
live, but in any case isn't supported here, and if true, the game never
should have been rated platinum. 
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=10125

If by "RTCW" you mean Return to Castle Wolfenstein (please use full
names when posting), a user posted detailed instructions for installing from two
cds on Ubuntu. The instructions are pretty old, but may be worth a try.