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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/R3VoLuTi0N on 2024-07-27 12:39:20+00:00.

I have a few questions about working of wine, I never quite understood about prefixes. Here are the questions, I will be very thankful to whoever can explain.

1. What are wine prefixes ?
2. Why create a new prefix for every game separately ?
3. Will these new prefix take up space in my hard drive ?
4. How do I clean up not unused prefix ? Where to find and delete them.
5. Why are two separate GUI tools for proton and wine prefix handling i.e proton tricks, wine tricks.
6. I have a install C++ redist separately for each new game using wine tricks. Is there a way I have a single prefix where all required libs are installed. Will there be a downside to this ?
7. How do I make st

So, I have some idea on what a reverse proxy does and will be using nginx (with the neat proxy manager UI) for my setup.

However, I'm not completely clear what exactly I want it to do and how I cn use it to run different services on one machine. I'm especially unclear on the ports configuration .... tutorials will say things like "change the listening port to xxx for that service and to port yyy for the other service"

How does this work, which ports can I use and how do I need to configure the respective services?

EDIT: thanks everybody, your replies did help me a lot! I have my basic setup now up and running using portainer + nginx + fail2ban.