If Wine were perfect, how many applications would you run with it?

[YokoZar]

I'm doing a bit of theoretical research on what Wine users might look like in the future. So, imagine for a moment, that we're in that future and Wine works with all apps perfectly - which applications would you actually use it for?

[asdfoo]

Wine works very well for my current needs, so long as I compromise when it comes to popular games like Left4Dead, I have to use low graphics settings for it to achieve a playable framerate, but hopefully that will be sorted out in the future by the people who work on d3d in Wine.

[aaronb]

Same here, wine has made a lot of progress recently (last 18 months) to the point where I have removed Windows and now using wine for my games.

[Bios Element]

I already run 9 or more programs but if it worked perfect I'd probably run about the same number as now.

[aysiu]

I don't use Windows applications, so 0.

[cogadh]

9+ apps, all of them games. Linux native apps work fine for everything else.

[mithbuntu]

My games.

I'm also still having trouble with Adobe CS3 products. I wish I could use my dreamweaver in linux

[krendar]

Only one. World of Warcraft. It it almost there actually. Only thing needed to do is setting it to run via OpenGL and tweak the sound-settings a bit to avoid stuttering sound.

There might be more games down the road I would eventually emulate in a "perfect Wine" though.

All other things I need to do is well served in Linux.

edit: almost forgot. Ventrilo. It is still bugging me a bit running Ventrilo sound and WoW sound simultaneously. If that worked flawless I would be happy.

[hikaricore]

Only one. World of Warcraft. It it almost there actually. Only thing needed to do is setting it to run via OpenGL and tweak the sound-settings a bit to avoid stuttering sound.

There might be more games down the road I would eventually emulate in a "perfect Wine" though.

All other things I need to do is well served in Linux.

edit: almost forgot. Ventrilo. It is still bugging me a bit running Ventrilo sound and WoW sound simultaneously. If that worked flawless I would be happy.

WoW has worked flawlessly for years now... and it has an OpenGL mode.
Your sound problems are a limitation of your hardware in all likelihood.

[Fenris_rising]

Only one for me. Google Sketchup if it worked with it For gaming I use my Xbox.

regards

Fenris