Since I installed Wine on my computer, I have mostly been using the Playonlinux
application to manage the installation and maintenance of the games I have
tested. The cool thing about it is that I can create wineprefixes for each
application I wish to test, and therefore not having the tweaks of one program
interfering with another. It's working great with applications which run
almost flawlessly in Wine, but for others which do require further testing I
have to use the gnome terminal. It ends up that sometimes a game will work with
POL but not with the terminal, and sometimes the opposite too, because when I
run games from the terminal they use a clean registry, instead of the registry
which is contained in POL for the specific prefix.
Now, I would like to stop using POL and refer more to text commands to run my
games. I do not know however how to create wine prefixes with the console, and
also if I have to install something, how to direct it toward a particular
prefix, just like what POL was taking care of. It would ask me first if I wanted
to create a new prefix or edit an existing one, and then direct the installation
toward the particular target. When I attempted to do it manually, the terminal
told me that the "wineprefixcreate" command was obsolete. I have also
browsed the wine WIKI about that, and I have only found something about the
"path" command, which I am not sure what it is for. I believe that it
would be necessary for me to have separate prefixes for each game, since I test
them and report bugs, and also because I have about 100 of them to test. A
little tutorial on that would be wonderful!
Thanks!