Windows on Linux App of the Year
 

When you just *have* to run windows.

crossover is a step in the right direction, however i still think people should learn to use the linux natives

Crossover is a very professional application. It seems reasonably well supported by the developers. The only "drawback" is that the Office Assistant in Office XP doesn't work.

--Ian

crossover
 

i think crossover is the best of them, it really works.
hey by the way i have 4 invites, if any1s interested drop me an note at archerytec360@gmail.com

I'm actually not voting on this one. I find that Rebooting into Windows is the only one that is 100% reliable. Though I do use Wine and have played with VMware.

I find that my main problem is building VCDs which are a mixture of video-clips and stills, whilst tricking my DVD player into playing non-standard VCDs which use faked headers on SVCD files.

TMPGenc fakes the headers, Nero builds the VCD images. TMPGenc works under Wine but I cannot get Nero to install properly in wine, or to find the Rewriter in VMware.

Oh, and I have a "One-4-All 6" remote control which I control via a JP1 lead to give it extended functions. The program that does this runs in Wine and in VMware, (for editing) but in neither case can it find the parallel port (for uploading) correctly. So that's Windows only.

Apart from that, though, I have no need for Windows any more.

Anyways, I can't afford VMware and once the 30 days are up, that's it!

VMware...
It really the best...
Also Crossover is a good app.

As a gamer, I've to vote for Cedega. It's quite impressive the improvements they've been doing during this time and I applause their efforts to support the newest games around (even that piece of junk that Steam is) for a real affordable price.

I found that in terms of applications, Linux is very well suited and should never be actually necessary to use applications as like these unless in extreme cases or for compatibility issues. With games that is a hole another story though and that's why my vote goes to Cedega.

Can't believe anyone would take Crossover Office over Win4Lin! I've yet to find anything that Crossover WILL run properly, and I've been buying it with every release of Xandros since 1.0. I keep being underwhelmed by it. Hey, I have a genuine licensed copy of MS Word 97 and Excel 97 SBE, and I can't even get it to LOAD, let alone run (and I've worked with tech support on it as well). I've got an AMD2800 box, and Windows Media player stutters to the point that it is unusable. Runs fine on Win4Lin.

VMWare is good, but it is slow and expensive. Like swatting a fly with an atom bomb. You don't need that much product to run legacy Windows apps.

I have several educational titles for my daughter, and they have all run on Win4Lin without a problem -- including some older educational games. Irfanview is supposed to run on WINE, but I can't get it to load. It runs flawlessly on Win4Lin.

For must-have legacy apps, Win4Lin gets my unqualified vote.

Frank.

Wine. It runs PokerStars.com perfectly.

MagicMan

This must me some strange definitions of drawback that I was not previously aware of ;) Office Assistant stinks!

wine

I personally like VMware but it is not free.
So, i am voting for Wine!!!

Running a honeypot makes having VMWare useful. The only drawback is it's price. And it is a memory hog.

Didn't vote in this category.

Don't use 'em, don't need 'em, don't want 'em.

Always VMware.

QEmu.

wine.

Wine. vmWare is nice but not free. >:

qemu
 

How about qemu? It's not a windows emulator, but more like vmware, and I found it very reliable albeit slower than the original, but free.

I'm for Cedega, because it allows one to run THE crucial applicaito on linux; Games

Wine - a free beer

Wine
 

Wine runs every windows app that I have ever needed it to...not that I ever really need a windows application

Wine .. when it works :p

Wine coz its free. Also comes with a free headache sometimes.

Wow some great apps there but i will go with cedega cos i only really use windoze for games :)

yah cedega has to get my vote, have to run my steam ;)
if it wasn't for counter-strike i wouldn't have a need for
any of this stuff ...

Cedega. Worth the (small) fee without a doubt.

I got the free Anarchy Online account, and it plays flawlessly now. <-- Amazed :)

Cedega taked my vote,but its slow.I play games on my Win partition :(

Wine here, because the price is right $$

It's just a "when i can't run it natively" solution these Products are sure great. wine based apps seem to work a lot better then they did 2 years ago.

Crossover Office gets the vote because it has something like the "system settings --> software" on windows so it is really easy to set up your windows Programs. cedega has something like that too with point2play but afaik it installs a new wine for every game that is installed and thats riddickulous ;)

I cannot vote here either. I have not had it to work since MDK 8 or so with VM ware.
I'll go with wine when there is a decent Wine Configurator.
And as has been said plenty of times before...
Games are the killer app for linux and getting those same companies to support linux (e.g. IDsoft's Doom3 is great on linux) is better than emulating or 'running' windows stuff.

Qemu is my favourite, but wine is quite nice as well (although it doesn't work with every windows app).

VMWare
 

VMWare
Use some old version (3) and W2k, its window is always open on my desktop (a bit slow at my PIII-600/512M -max for 815...). No problem... except maybe the fixed virtual disk size.

Wine

Crossover office is an exelent app that makes Linux much more acessible for new users.

Looking forward to ver 5.0 with support for Office 2003 :D

Windows apps actually run better in Win4Lin than in Windows, so it is my choice.

Crossover is the right thing!

DeusEx@cedega4.2 only thing I need that involves windows-software.
4.2 is great - and it installs much quicker than windows

Linux native apps
 

Agreed that using native Linux applications is the ideal, but what else can you do when there's no alternative that you are comfortable with? Anyway, running Windows apps without the security holes of Windows seems like poetic justice to me :D

i have used vm ware extensively and am very happy with it, i use it on a redhat based system, (well fedora now) and use it to run almost all of my windoze needs... i run ftp and web pages from it in side the linux machine, the nice thing about this set up is you can have vmware take snapshots of system status and save them at regular intervals. i nthe event that some one hacks and crashes the vertual windows machine you can simply cut and paste the last system status into the vm windows machine and be back up in less than a minute... i think thats pretty cool. and also the fact that vm ware completely isolates the host system so that it it vertually impossible to hack the host system... (i say vertually because there is always a way to get around security, just noone has found it yet in vmware as far as i know)

anyway thats my choice...... heheh

I like crossover, easy to install and configure.

What about QEMU?

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Qemu is the best !
-free
-open source
-not very stable yet
-and now fast with the new accelerator module (mar 2005)