[pmh]

While I agree that it's nice to have native (assuming it's actually native) ports, HL2 and most of the other Source engine games have reportedly run great via Wine for a while now: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...

[ajross]

There's a big gap between "can be made to run under wine by following a recipe someone posted to appdb.winehq.org" and "click on Download, then Plan".

I fiddle with messy integration issues on embedded Linux and Android professionally, and am about as qualified as anyone could be to make that work. I never once bothered trying to get wine running. I installed Portal last week without a moment's thought.

[chongli]

Just use PlayOnLinux. It makes handling of wine configuration very easy and automatic.

[wtallis]

These ports are a little bit more native than linking to winelib - there are still some translation layers in place, but you do run an ELF file.