Some useful winetricks to install are the aforementioned vcredist, dotnet, corefonts and directx9/11.
Closing Words
Using WINE can be daunting at first and still a bit messy later on when you know your way around better. Yet I believe that with some proper management of your applications you can easily have some fun with it and have a good experience running those applications that you don’t have an open source alternative for. At the end of the day, having official support from these companies would be beneficial but if that’s not the case in the foreseeable future, this could be a good alternative for what you need. Lastly, WINE contains a database with thousands of applications that have been tested in the past and are known to run better with specific (sometimes older) versions of WINE rather than on the latest.
To read more about WINE or even consider contributing to their project, please visit WINE’s official website.
Cheers!
Greater BV