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by timbuzgil

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some people have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to successfully work with Ubuntu due to their inability to run windows application. Some of them have been told about a certain WINE software. the thing is i don't have an idea of how it works or where to get it. Any ideas?

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by slayer_

I know in Mint. You click the button on the bottom left, and in the text box, type in "Wine"
If its installed, it will run, if its not installed, it will allow you to install it.

Once Wine is installed, you just dbl click an EXE file, just like Windows, and it should work, or at least try to work.

Ubuntu might work similar, though where you can type in a search... I don't know.

by charliespencer

How does one install the desired Windows app? I assume you can't double-click the SETUP.EXE file and follow the prompts.

by jdclyde

is there a similar application that is native to linux. Will ALWAYS run better than something under an emulator.

If not, THEN go the WINE route.

I am just about to start playing with this stuff again, so will have to see how it goes.

by slayer_

It will figure out a C drive and everything. It's really very smart. I usually have Wine make a C drive off my home directory.

by burnettd

Hello.

I've been using Ubuntu for years, including Wine and even CrossOver Professional. These applications do a pretty good job emulating a Windows environment to run Windows applications, but they're still a bit quarky - especially if you're trying to use Outlook to connect to an Exchange server as I do. Or, if you're stuck using IE for web sites that are written specifically for IE. My solution has been to install VirtualBox and build a Windows XP virtual machine. Works FLAWLESSLY, and you can copy the VDI file to other computers to run the same virtual machine there as well (kinda like imaging a physical machine using Ghost - you just have to be sure to rename the computer before connecting it to the network... and be sure you have the licenses for XP).

- - Dave

by slayer_

If you have to maintain a virtual machine for a key application, you might as well just run Windows.

by slayer_

So the installer will install to the C drive and run like normal. It will even create its shortcuts, everything. Wine maintains a list, sort of like Win7's XP mode of installed programs. You can run em from the list, or just find any EXE file and set the association with Wine (or just right click and choose to run with WINE).

Again, this is in Mint, not Ubuntu, it could be completely different and convoluted in Ubuntu.

by jaqui

install wine-doors and then let the user install their microsoft based malware.

as long as it isn't a 3d modeling / animation / cad\cae app or game it should work just fine.

though I shudder at the thought of running a resource hungry speech to text type app under wine, double the resource load you know. since wine is a translator, not an emulator. it needs exactly the same resources to run an app as the app needs to run anyway.

by slayer_

Works fine so far, been using it to play games like Red Alert Win95 version, which under XP or anything NT based, causes a horrible system BSOD a few seconds into the game.

However, if Wine goes down, it will almost always take all of Linux with it. Wine really demonstrates the instability of Linux.

As for resources, I cannot say, I do not know how to actively monitor resources like RAM and CPU usage in Linux.

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