Windows on Linux App of the Year
 

For when you want to run a Windows application, but don't need full virtualization.

--jeremy

Could I throw in a suggestion for Play on Linux?

Wine is the best one, and it's free. Clearly a winner.

Cedega.

Wine is good. PlayOnLinux is interesting - something to keep an eye on.

wine. I think it has made considerable progress over the last year.

Wine is not perfect, but the version 1.0 and subsequent releases have made giant strides from the earlier versions that I have used.

Wine, Linux does everything I want it to now, but once in a while I use wine for fun.

WINE is a good general purpose Windows emulator. I would not include any frontends like PlayOnLinux in the mix of choices. I suggest leave the top four. If you are going to include front ends to ease setting up WINE, add something like WINE/PlayOnLinux.

IMHO, WINE is mostly going backwards. WINE requires a GUI program to configure it. In the past, WINE can be configure with a text editor. WINE developers still have not think about security like putting WINE in a root jail to protect directories and files from being infected.

Cedega has made longer strides compared to WINE. The game The Sims 2 is finally known to work in it which is good to know, but I have not tried it yet.

I like wine only@Linux.

It is going backwords i agree, maybe they should add the possibility of a cfg file, for the linux user that move faster typing than "Pumpin the mouse" I Must Vote for WINE , Mainly Because of http://howto.landure.fr/gnu-linux/in...nux-using-wine and http://www.wine-reviews.net/microsof...with-wine.html both have a little bit different helpful info. especialy VideoCard Ram info/issue with some users, and Run in W2K mode! ... got WoW running without open-gl, i need to do the video card ram fix to use more than 60megs of my ATI Radeon HD 3450's supply, AND i cant Forget the Russians!!! "K-M software" presents "DX-10 on XP NTC", it might take less than an hour to find the download some where, i had to modify my search to finaly get the latest K-m release,1.1 i think.... included the Option of the ALKY and Falling Leaf Projects instead of theres... how polite,

wine because the others ether are not free or have not grown big enough to catch my attention.

wine

thanks to ie4linux though.

My favorite is Wine.

Wine coz it's free :)

How do you get a person to do what you want them to do? Get them drunk on wine.
How do you get a Windows app to do what you want it to? Get it drunk on Wine.

p.s. I do not actually recommend getting people drunk.

wine is the best one, though i must mention ie4linux... really i can't live without having wine on my box, 'coz at some time you r compelled to test some stuffs on win and there it comes as the angel. WINE rocks..

Wine...its more flexible, thats what advance users need.

I do not usually use any applications that are windows specific. Ubuntu works for me and better than windows could ever. But still keep wine just in case some need arise. Its good and runs pretty well most of the frequently run applications.

Wine is amazing, I am a Windows Delphi Developer, and Wine let me run all my applications perfectlly under Linux.

correct me if i'm wrong but most of them are wine based right?

Wine, it's free with my distro.

registered Linux user #412308

WWW - Wine will win :P

wine
it just works

Virtual Box
 

I must not under stand this category correctly, because of the absence of even mentioning Sun xVM VirtualBox.

I need Adobe's Web development Suite, and until Adobe releases a Linux version I am forced to occasionally use windoze. VirtualBox is absolutely amazing, version updates are easy and kernel updates are transparent. I have in the past used Win4Lin (nice product) and WINE (prefer mine out of a bottle).

By the way, if you are going to flame me about virtualization - the category is running windoze apps, WINE, Win4Lin have the same goal in mind. I am just stating my "opinion" which one satisfies that goal best for me.

Definitely Wine.

If U use VirtualBox free software U need no windows emulator

With Wine I don't Whine.

got money $40 bucks each or discount to get both:cxOffice-deluxe, for ease of use of the average desktop user. (Hi grandma, the virus-free surfer.) but myself, I use wine.
for games since I test a lot, i test with the cxGames source. If I was lazy, I'd use cedega/playonlinux.
never use/will use: win4lin/clik n run.

wine because the others ether are not free.

bordeaux
 

Maybe next year you can add Bordeaux :)

http://bordeauxgroup.com/

Wine ... Cause I haven't used any of the others on the poll list!
:D

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