How to tell Mac from Linux wine within a Wine app? (steam hardware survey)

[Scott Ritchie]

On 11/10/12 11:20 AM, Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote:
> On 11/10/2012 02:03 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>> Is there an easy way for the steam hardware survey to tell whether it's
>> running under Mac or Linux Wine?
>>
>> I remember discussing this issue with an engineer from Valve after
>> asking they make the % of Wine users public again.
>>
>>
> Why do you care?
>
> The best way is probably to try something that works on a Mac, and if
> it comes back with 'not implemented', try a workaround that works with
> Wine.
>
> It would not be a good idea to infer that because one thing is broken
> under wine, that some other work around is also needed.  Each
> capability should be checked separately.  Things can change fairly
> rapidly in Wine.
>
>

The purpose isn't to work around wine bugs by detecting wine, it's to 
find out how many Wine/Mac and Wine/Linux users there are so they can 
assess how that compares to the native clients.