Re: Trying to improve my experience...
I have been using Mint for many a moon now (4.something?) but still had a Windows box for those oddments which were Win-only. I did try WINE but it was not friendly enough to fight to get a couple of games and some old but still useful apps across.
During the update to Mint17.2 I found PlayonLinux....OMG....how simple was that? Each app/game moved across into their own little environment working at the first attempt.
Sad to end the Windows experience but that time has now come.