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Fedora install wine and wine-dxvk
What is wine and DXVK
Wine (wine is not an emulator) is a translation layer on linux that is used to run windows software on linux. It translates system calls the software makes windows calls to system calls Linux can understand and operate with. Its NOT the silver bullet to run all windows software on linux but it does one hell of a good job.
DXVK (directx to vulkan) is used with wine to run windows games on Linux, DXVK works in kind of the same way and fashion as wine, except that instead of system calls it translates directx call to vulcan calls. And since vulkan is native to Linux this makes it posible to run games that use the driectx API on Linux… most of the time, again its not a silver bullet yet
How to
Wine and DXVK is in the third party repo's that you get the option to enable when you install Fedora, if you for some reason have not enabled it they can also be found in the rpmfusion repo's: https://wiki.nopants.dk/doku.php?id=linux:fedora_rpm_fusion
sudo dnf install wine wine-dxvk wine-dxvk-d3d9 wine-dxvk-dxgi
Now that you have wine and DXVK GLHF playing games that use directx