Rishabh Sharma asks:
I am planning to switch from Windows XP to Ubuntu 12, Just want to know is Wine supports all the windows Apps/ Games. it would be crucial as I worked on Windows for almost 7 yrs.
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Jose Paolo Gonzales Otico
December 16, 2012WineHQ has a compatibility list. Just check to see if the applications you want to run are on there. You can also check to see if there are alternatives to the Windows applications you use that are on Ubuntu.
Rob Hindle
December 16, 2012In brief: No.
Games in particular get very choosy about the OS environment
luis donis
December 17, 2012if very good wine can emulate a lot of programs with
Junil Maharjan
December 17, 2012No, it doesn’t run all the programs. But it does run very useful programs.
Ahamed Yaseen
December 17, 2012All apps not supported in wine… Stay with windows…
Âdil Farôôq
December 17, 2012Not all the applications but can support some of them
ha14
December 17, 2012Wine Application Database (AppDB
http://appdb.winehq.org/
Manuel Guillermo López Buenfil
December 17, 2012Games may prove to be a problem.
For applications, I suggest that you look for an alternative program in Linux which does the same thing, instead of bringing your Windows programs to Linux.
Thanks to steam, maybe soon it will not be a problem ..
December 17, 2012Abba Jee
December 18, 2012No it can’t run all windows applications, there’s a compatibility list of software which you can run using wine
Adriel Tan
December 18, 2012Wine is awesome, but it does not work for everything (especially games). Wine’s website has a list of supported applications. If windows app support is crucial, then you are probably better off using Windows in a virtual machine (though that does not fix the games issue)…
Justin Pot
December 18, 2012It doesn’t run everything and it’s sometimes very instable. If you want to switch to Linux you should know that you’ll have to leave some software behind. Don’t worry: there are many alternatives and you’ll eventually feel right at home.
Ok, I understand that
December 20, 2012