Many Windows games on Linux do not handle losing focus well when in fullscreen mode.
If you are a tinkerer, there is a decades-old, barely maintained project called Wine-UWP. This was a fork designed to stub out the missing Windows Runtime APIs. Historically, it got the Forza Horizon 3 splash screen to appear before crashing. forza horizon 3 linux
As of 2024, Wine-UWP is effectively dead. The last commits are from 2019. However, modern Wine (wine-9.0+) includes more WinRT work. Here is the theoretical process (with a 95% chance of failure): Many Windows games on Linux do not handle
Verdict: Do not waste your weekend. You will hit a "License Check Failure" because the Microsoft Store licensing DLLs (LicenseManager) are not implemented in Wine. Verdict: Do not waste your weekend
Let’s be realistic. As of late 2024, you cannot simply double-click and play Forza Horizon 3 on Ubuntu or Fedora. However, the Linux gaming community has made incremental progress.
