Let us see what we have. First we need to get the application. Choose the correct version for your computer from the official download page here and act as indicated. For demonstration purposes I will focus on the approach for Ubuntu 8.10.
The easiest and most straight forward approach if you have an Internet connection is to just enter the following commands into the terminal. First add Wine to your list of trusted applications.
You can find the terminal via Accessories-> Terminal. Enter the password, and once the installation is done, a new menu should appear.
You can already see a couple of applications installed within the wine list. The installation of all their setups will be similar to what you would do on Linux. All you need to do is open with Wine, as shown in the picture below.
As I've already mentioned, at the time of writing the team was not yet finished with the complete Windows API. Even after 13 years of development, many things are yet not supported or integrated. Time will solve this, perhaps, or maybe a more massive investment. The first packages for 64-bit applications have been revealed; however, they are still only in the pre-beta stage. Completing the 32-bit Wine takes priority.
Given this, some applications may just work without any problem, while others simply refuse to start. To find out more, you can check a central database here that collects the overall reactions of users to programs. Here you can check to see whether or not any particular application works as it should. Based on Wine's overall behavior, there exist four kinds of applications: platinum, gold, silver, and bronze.
You may check out your favorite applications to see at which rank they are in the list. In my next article you'll see that I tried some of the most popular ones; this will help you to see if you can make the migration to Linux from Windows fairly easily. There I will also cover how Wine's third party applications try to make your life easier.
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