i am new to wine and linux in general, and i thought i would ask, for those few programs from windows that i'd want to stick with, how should i go about strengthening my install of wine? is there any add-on i might want to use? or any basic programs or files i need to copy into it to get things enhanced on a basic level? just basic beginner advice is really what im looking for. thanks!
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:44 PM, wine_and_women<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> i am new to wine and linux in general, and i thought i would ask, for those few programs from windows that i'd want to stick with, how should i go about strengthening my install of wine? is there any add-on i might want to use? or any basic programs or files i need to copy into it to get things enhanced on a basic level? just basic beginner advice is really what im looking for.It should work out of the box, no tweaking/add-ons needed. If something doesn't work, of course, you may need tweaks to get it to work. But there's not a default addon package or anything like that needed. -- -Austin
Check the AppDB (link at top) for the individual apps you wish to keep. If they are not supported/working at this time, the best option is to find a Linux equivalent. I've found there are very few Windows apps (other than games) that don't have a passable (and free) Linux alternative. After that, you might consider using a VM to run an old version of Windows (we all have a license somewhere). Solutions like VirtualBox allow you to run the Windows apps on the same desktop - side-by side with your Linux apps. This is a great solution for apps that don't run under Wine yet and do not need hardware acceleration. If what you want is to run a game, or use some other finicky piece of hardware that will not work right with Linux, I'd recommend setting up a dual-boot environment until such time as Linux/Wine can fully meet your requirements.
actually evil, opensuse 11 is working really well on my laptop which is about 4 years old, 1.8 gig processor with 1.5 gigs ram, not a speed demon, but not terribly shabby. i have a dual boot windows server 2003/suse right now, as im just now beginning with linux. if i could get just a few things running on linux i could use windows less and less, i sure miss babylon translator on Linux, for instance. virtual box, is that a vm program? ive used vmware, but thats like a whole other operating system. youre saying virtual box looks as though the program is running in linux? im trying to understand this :)