I think a recent beta of Crossover incorporated a GPTK version before it was released by Apple so that seems promising.

Good point! Have you had any experience with CrossOver? Does it tend to work better than Whisky?

Part of the nuance here is that although both can use GPT underneath, there's still a lot of config that needs to happen beforehand (e.g. different "sync" modes that impact not just visual fidelity, but whether the game will even launch at all). Does CrossOver take care of all that for you (with predefined pre-game profiles, perhaps) or do you still have to manually configure every title?

> Good point! Have you had any experience with CrossOver? Does it tend to work better than Whisky?

It certainly does. It has presets for most mainstream games and it uses the latest version of Wine.

The author of Whisky, in a move that can't be praised enough, has decided to not update further the version of CrossOver on which Whisky relies. This is so that Whisky does not become a free clone of CrossOver, given that CodeWeavers are the ones developing Wine. So, I'd say it is worth using CrossOver! They also have a free trial, so I'd give it a try and compare it with Whisky for a specific game, and see what runs better!

Not in depth. I’m just a user of Crossover, I haven’t had time to try Whisky. I think sometimes Codeweavers incorporates fixes for certain games into the app updates. Especially for the Steam app, for example. These appear in the changelogs. I use Crossover with CXPatcher because I then can use more up-to-date versions of DXVK and GPTK. The update cycle of Crossover is a bit slow for what is going on in that space right now.

The biggest problems I've run into with gaming on Linux/wine/proton whatever are DRM getting upset about something.

Give GFN a try. No DRM issues.