WINE

[Che Guebeara]

I use WINE extensively, especially for graphics apps like Terragen which
don't have a Linux equivalent or have one that is not as feature rich.
My experience is that as long as you are willing to visit dll-files.com
or like site for the odd missing DLL (esp VB6 ones) WINE works well. In
fact both Terragen and Photoshop perform better on my 10.04 box under
WINE than on the Windoze machines here. Each has minor quirks -
Photoshop won't start 'Saving for Web' until you move the mouse across
the screen for some reason - but in general are pretty solid.  What I
found invaluable were the reviews and comments on winehq.com, especially
the DLL tweaks and workarounds.

MSOffice works fine under WINE, except for Outlook in my experience, but
with OO3, Evolution and Kexi why would you bother loading it? Also OO3
is the closest to 100% MSOffice compatibility that I have seen so far.

Mark

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 20:06 -0400, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Dorian Douma <agreatwhitebird at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why would anyone want to emulate anything in order to use MS Office?
> 
> In that particular case, it's a group that mostly uses Linux, but are
> part of a larger organization that is mostly Windows-centic and MS
> Office heavy.  OpenOffice is not good enough for the type of documents
> they share back and forth. So MS Office under Crossover is a very
> usable option for them.
> 
> > Plus for most people they can just use the Windows install CD and serial
> > number that came with their computer... it's written on the side of mine.
> 
> for most people, yes.   But for years I I built my own desktop PC at
> home, and it didn't come with a Windows CD and that sticker. For that
> type of user, VirtualBox is a good option, but expensive one since you
> have to go get a retail copy of the full-version of Windows to get it
> to work.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Robitaille
> 
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