This is just a curiosity post. I keep hearing about wine and understand what it is supposed to do. I dont think I would use it because I have windows vista and xp on the same machine and much of the purpose of going to ubuntu is kind of a screw you windows .. bah bye. So the only program that I would be missing that I would need to switch over for would be my modeling program (vectorworks) and from my initial exploration Wings might replace that and do the job better. But I have to know. It has to slow the machine down like crazy no? I did some scripts back in the day for an existing pc emulator in teh late 80's and it wasn't really worth having it on the machine because the PC side ran so slow.

I could ask at the wine forums but to often you get only fan boys on specific forums so I thought I would ask here.

What gives .. what is it and how slow does it kill your computer?
Alex

Well if you already understand what it's supposed to do, what else are we supposed to tell you? It's generally never anything like as good as you hope it would be, that's one thing I guess. Generally I'd suggest running a real windows VM instead of Wine, so much simpler and reliable.

It's pretty good I can say. When I first tried it I've expected worst. There are some windows apps that can run under Linux with wine without major performance issues. Usually applications that are too windows dependent, like they use a lot of windows menus and so on will not run that good with wine under linux, for example vectorworks at wine hq http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=4861 it's rated silver and bronze, that means you shouldn't even bother trying to install it under linux, but almost for anything there's a linux alternative. For CAD like programs for example there's BricsCAD which I've heard it's pretty good. Usually the programs that are not so dependent on the windows works very well with wine. that's why most of the games, especially OpenGL games can be runned without much effort under Linux with wine.

in general i dislike it
BUT if you have only one or two programs ( that work fine in wine) use wine
an example
on my moms computer ( suse) i have wine installed for ONE 1 xp windows ( paid for $30) game
there is no use in dual booting her box for 1 game


i do some software testing so i run Suse,Arch, Cent, and win7
so there is no need for wine. But to give you an idea i think in the last 60 day i have logged 3 to 4 hours total on win 7
if my copy of 7 was not " at no cost" it would not be there .