Since wine isolates applications (inc frontends like Lutris and bottles) they are a bit more secure however be aware they do typically give applications unrestricted access to your home directory. In theory they shouldn’t have access to root permissions since unlike Windows you should never give userspace applications root permission (with limited exceptions).
That’s just security and with that out of the way compatibility depends, I find steam emulation is a hit or miss but gog games work consistently. So overall it depends but mostly its ok.
unlike Windows you should never give userspace applications root permission
This is a best practice on Windows, too. Apps don’t run with admin permissions unless you either explicitly run them with admin permissions, they’re configured to always run as admin (rare), or they request elevation via a UAC prompt.
Since wine isolates applications (inc frontends like Lutris and bottles) they are a bit more secure however be aware they do typically give applications unrestricted access to your home directory. In theory they shouldn’t have access to root permissions since unlike Windows you should never give userspace applications root permission (with limited exceptions).
That’s just security and with that out of the way compatibility depends, I find steam emulation is a hit or miss but gog games work consistently. So overall it depends but mostly its ok.
This is a best practice on Windows, too. Apps don’t run with admin permissions unless you either explicitly run them with admin permissions, they’re configured to always run as admin (rare), or they request elevation via a UAC prompt.