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What do you mean by safe?

Well, in Windows if you have an Antivirus you will get at least some notification that something is suspicious. But in Wine you don't have an Antivirus.

I am just not sure about the worst case scenario.

I wonder if Wine ever led a windows virus to infect a linux installation

Yes, viruses in Wine actually happened.

That is the reason I'm still dependent on VMs. I don't want to compromise my main OS.

For further information: http://askubuntu.com/questions/562388/do-wine-viruses-only-w...

I guess if I only use it for 1 Game on Steam I will be fine. The game doesn't work in a VM.

I've never heard of anypony getting malware delivered to them by Steam

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