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I am currently using 2 versions of steam, the Linux one for games compatible with Linux, and the windows version in wine for games which are not compatible. I was wondering if it is possible to get wine to work on games in Linux steam (the one not using wine) , so I do not have to switch back and forth between the two steams.

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This has been requested (2 months ago), whatever all what I've heard is that "Steam wants the games to run natively", but we don't think that some developers will port their games to Linux. – Blastcore Feb 17 at 5:40

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Only certain games are compatible with Linux. So there will be games you can only play on Windows, unless you explore the option of using WINE and playonlinux. If not then you'd have to dual boot to play them, but I don't see much point because Windows will run all the games available on Steam.

This is because of graphics drivers and Direct X etc...

Hope this helps! :)

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He said he's using Wine, whatever he would like an option that instead of having to launch Wine with Steam to play non-supported games you can tell Steam to launch using Wine. – Blastcore Feb 17 at 5:37
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For many reasons it is not possible to easily run Steam for Windows library games through the newly released Steam for Linux client.
It is possible to use the same Steam account for both clients which your library would show all your games and apps (regardless of which client being used)but you would have to be using the Steam for windows client to play windows games and Steam for Linux client to play games for Linux.

It is possible to run Steam for Windows client through Wine and have Steam for Linux client on the same Ubuntu install which would save having to reboot or taking other action in order to use the two different clients.

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