How would I run Windows Games & Software on Linux?
I heard ‘WINE’ would let me run Windows Games and Software on my Linux (Ubuntu) installation, and I was wondering if anyone knows of an effective way to do this on Linux… or how to use WINE if that is the best way to do this.
It’s not meant to run Windows Software. I’d only run like one or two Windows Game [Empire at War, for example]. I am just getting sick of Windows (no offense), and wanted to switch to something different.
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Filed under: All Things Wine
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Read these:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-312130506d4585c973df1d88538b11945193c41d
For a list of Wine-compatible programs, see:
http://appdb.winehq.org/
Edit:
Oh OK.
No offense taken, I don’t even use Windows.
I just thought maybe you were coming to Linux expecting it to be a free clone of Windows like a lot of new users do. Well anyway, the documentation above should be enough to get you started with Wine
open terminal and type
sudo apt-get install wine
If you can find the source for the windows program, convert it to run on linux directly will be option #1.
But lots of windows programs come with only the executables, so you need to have wine or run them on Linuxxp. There have been many people who have built interfaces for windows to run in Linux.
I run Ubuntu Linux dual booted to vista in one laptop, and in another older box I run linux dual boot with XP.
That allows me to switch to native vista or XP and at the same time keep on using Linux. Because I am using my linux office software in windows office compatible formats, I can work on them in either windows or linux.