A Wine experiment!

[warrion_2000]

I was thinking of trying to run some new games and other apps that are really popular (for instance MS Office and MSN etc) on wine, and then making a list of those which work and how well they work. There are sites like frankscorner.org but I have not seen any changes there in a long time.

Recently I've been unable to use my Linux box, and I'm stuck with a notebook that has XP on it. I definitely want to do this in the near future.

I wanted some suggestions about what programs people think are popular, and then try to run them. Wine for apps and certain games, and Cedega for other games.

I would also like to know alternatives for popular Windows programs. OpenOffice.org/Koffice instead of MS Office, or Gaim instead of MSN.

This has probably been done before, but I want to do it for myself and make a list of all this stuff.

Thanks for listening.

[carlosponti]

crossover office is another good way to run windows apps in linux from what i heard. open office is a good replacement for MS Office and GAIM is a good replacement for yahoo aim and msn messenger. gimp is a decent replacement for photoshop but for serious work i have heard photoshop is still the way to go which btw is one app i have heard that works with crossover office. i am slowly learning everyday on apps that replace the ones i use and for everything else till then is a good candidate for dual booting.

[LadyPixel]

Halo 2! Halo2!

^_~

[onlinebacon]

Halo 2! Halo2!

^_~

Is for XBOX! Is for XBOX!

:P

[jens]

I was thinking of trying to run some new games and other apps that are really popular (for instance MS Office and MSN etc) on wine, and then making a list of those which work and how well they work. There are sites like frankscorner.org but I have not seen any changes there in a long time.

Recently I've been unable to use my Linux box, and I'm stuck with a notebook that has XP on it. I definitely want to do this in the near future.

I wanted some suggestions about what programs people think are popular, and then try to run them. Wine for apps and certain games, and Cedega for other games.

I would also like to know alternatives for popular Windows programs. OpenOffice.org/Koffice instead of MS Office, or Gaim instead of MSN.

This has probably been done before, but I want to do it for myself and make a list of all this stuff.

Thanks for listening.

IMO their is no reason for porting either MS Office or MSN to GNU/Linux, since I find their native apps already better.

Things I'd like to see ported:

From MS Windows:
Games and Photoshop(IMO only needed for professionals, the Gimp is good enough for everything I ever needed myself)

From Apple:
Itunes, Quicktime and Quartz.

[Oxygen]

Mabe a little off topic?

I think it would be a great idea for you to see what programs from Windows work using wine or crossover office.

Just make a list of programs, then say:

How they work using Wine
How they work using Crossover Office
If there is a Linux equivilant.

Also just for me would you please look into Winamp. I think the Linux equivilant of Winamp dosn't support .MP3 files, and Real Player dosn't have a media player list.

[jens]

Also just for me would you please look into Winamp. I think the Linux equivilant of Winamp dosn't support .MP3 files, and Real Player dosn't have a media player list.

Eh...?
All xmms, beep(xmms and beep are both based on winamp), xine , mplayer, ... do support mp3.
Since you're using Suse, see:
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=3601

[Odd_Bloke]

Check this topic out: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-2528.html

[pixellany]

Codeweavers (Crossover Office) keeps a pretty good list what does and does not work.
Good comment about not putting MSOffice on Crossover (Wine), BUT: If you need to run an Excel application with lot of Vbasic and macros, then you will need to install Excel.
Photoshop 6 (maybe 7?) runs on Crossover, but CS does not.

My wish list to get into Linux somehow:
Fasttrack (scheduling tool)
ACDSee (still the best photo album app
Better scanner support
Specialized digital photo tools---eg Panorama SW

Suggestion: Rather than re-inventing the wheel, why not support Codeweavers efforts. Take a look at their website to see what they are looking for.