Where do you download? Excluding particular cases, what are the common steps you take to make most games playable? Where do you keep and launch your collection?
I know there are in-depth guides but I wanted a more genuine commentary on your experience.
I use John Cena’s releases: https://github.com/jc141x/releases-feed
You need a modern version of wine and dwarfs, I think, but once you have those installed everything should work fine and you simply have to run the start-*.sh script.