Finally after several years comes the Alpha version of PlayOnLinux 5.0

And good after a few years of being kept under the hood and leave many users of this great software in doubt as to whether the project was paused, canceled or abandoned, but they only continued to receive help in the forums.

The announcement of the alpha version of POL arrives or better known as PlayOnLinux and well the day of yesterday this alpha version 5.0 was announced via a statement on the application's website.

About PlayOnLinux

For those readers who are new to Linux or unfamiliar with this project, I can tell you that PlayOnLinux is a free and open source graphical front-end for Wine.

Allows Linux users to install a large number of Windows-based computer games and applications like Microsoft Office (2000 to 2010), Steam, Photoshop and many other applications.

PlayOnLinux too allows you to install your Windows-based software on different virtual drives.

Which means that there is no interaction between the different applications you install.

So if something doesn't work right, you know it won't affect the rest of your stuff and they can easily uninstall it by removing the virtual drive.

Installing games and applications through Wine can be a bit difficult for newbies.

For this The use of PlayOnLinux is recommended as it solves this by providing a simpler interface, which with just a few clicks will allow you to easily install Windows applications and games on Linux.

In other words, all the complexity of Wine is hidden by default in PlayOnLinux and it easily automates the installation of compatible software and games.

Currently PlayOnLinux has remained in its stable version 4.2.12 which has been around for a long time and as mentioned at the beginning of the article, the alpha of version 5.0 that they were working on for several years was already released.

This new alpha that will be polished in a matter of time and will be the mainstay for the stable version of PlayOnLinux 5.0 means better compatibility with the new generation of graphics cards, games and more.

What's New in PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha

This released alpha version of PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha features a completely redesigned user interface and launches its new 'Phoenicis' platform.

Phoenicis is a completely rewritten piece of software that aims to present all the resources of PlayOnLinux 3 and 4 (also known as Arietis).

This new platform is decentralized, Git-based, and improves the POL scripting mechanism. The current version of PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha supports around 135 different games.

Plus PlayOnLinux developers are also researching virtualization and / or container technologies to help improve the gaming experience.

We can also include that PlayOnLinux 5.0 Alpha 1 was released together with a similar version of PlayOnMac.

Although there is nothing else that we can highlight in this new alpha version of PlayOnLinux.

Well with the recent news that Steam working with a Wine compatibility layer with Steam Play / Proton and Lutris gamers are interested in seeing how this plays out on Linux.

Although on the other hand PlayOnLinux is not only for running Windows games on Linux, what we will see will be better compatibility with various programs that still cannot be run with POL on Linux.

Meanwhile the PlayOnLinux / PlayOnMac developers continue to quietly work on some great improvements.

Well, they argue in the statement that even POL 5.0 is far from being finished, since they have in mind the power to develop a solid Wine development platform using modern virtualization and / or containerization solutions.

Download Alpha version of PlayOnLinux 5.0

For those who are interested in knowing this new release and what the developers have in mind to include and modify in POL as well as help in the detection of errors.

You can go to the following link where you can obtain the binary packages for installation. The link to download the PlayOnLinux alpha 5.0 binaries is this.