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Ever heard of Steam DRM? Are you going to circumvent that? It's against the SSA.
As soon as they integrate starting games via wine they would be flooded with a zillion bug reports from people who don't understand that neither Valve, nor the game publisher is responsible for making programs run on wine.
That's the prime reason this is never going to happen.
It's more likely that some community members find a way to hack this. And such a hack might be tolerated (publisher got the money anyway and Valve is not responsible for problems this way). But it would not be officially sanctioned.
The only way we might ever see wine integration is possibly under the hood - if some publishers decide to make their games run on steamos with wine wrappers. But then it would be used for just these games.
Is it going to happen? Probably not, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless. You'd still need a Windows copy of steam to download the Windows games.
I think it's much more likely that, as Oerthling said, Game Devs will package their games with a Wine wrapper. IIRC this is how several of the "Native" humble bundle games work.
I used to be able to play a surprisingly large number of titles over wine, but now that Steam has a lot more attention on Linux, this feature has been specifically blocked. When I try, it actually /redirects/ me to the Linux version of Steam.
I can't say I don't understand why Steam does this, but the option should still be there.
i belive that was a bug, i noticed it in trackmania but it only worked if you had wine alredy installed, but it would be pointless if you don't have or not wan't wine in your system.
Also it would probably (just probably) make some developers try to use wine for "porting" to linux and a lot of people still have problems running anything more complex than counter strike source under wine (just look at the app database) so it's not a really a solution. Anyway you still can use wine under steam for linux to use the overlay if that's what you want
People suggest this feature in the first place because they seek to bridge that gap. While it's nice and such to bank on total Linux support, some games will likely never receive it (a personal example, Mirror's Edge).