What best describes your relationship with Wine?

[cogar66]

I only play old games:

Original Fallouts
PST
etc.

And WINE completely fails when it comes to old games, it's of no use to me.

[blur xc]

It gives me the ability to run a $3500 CAD program on Linux.

Really? What CAD program? 64bit or 32bit? If SW can run in Wine- I might try it again. As it stands now, I hate it, and after about a year since I used it, I finally fixed all the screw ups it caused on my system. I wouldn't work with ANY program I tried to use it with. All it caused me is grief, and horrible crashes that could only bed fixed by rebooting.

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[Frogs Hair]

I use Windows when needed or desired. If I only had Linux and absolutely had to run a Windows program I would try wine.

[Telengard C64]

I voted "I use it regularly for several programs but it's not crucial."

I really only use it occasionally, and mostly for Doom Builder. Eventually I'm going to force myself to learn a different tool to replace it with, but none of the Linux native programs I've tried even come close to DB's ease of use.

If Wine were to disappear tomorrow then I'd still have VirtualBox. For applications where VirtualBox isn't ideal I could go back to dual booting.

I do think Wine is very good to have, but not crucial.

[philinux]

One app and that is going soon. It's a subscription app and I is cancelling next month.

[Rasa1111]

used it once to try PS7 on here,
then remembered I wanted to get away from all that,
and removed PS and wine. lol

our relationship is non-existent.
i like it that way.

[gnomeuser]

I only play old games:

Original Fallouts
PST
etc.

And WINE completely fails when it comes to old games, it's of no use to me.

I have similar uses of Wine but honestly it never works quite right.

Fallout 1+2 is played in a tiny window and there is no good way to get it to fullscreen. Played outside of a virtual desktop the animations and fades are laggy.

Divine Divinity, installs and runs the main menu but sound is all screwed up. The game is unplayable.

Simon the Sorcerer 1+2, both of these use scummvm so I don't need Wine but I run them through it anyways since the scummvm build in Maverick had.. issues.

Wine never really worked right for me, I wish I could do without it. However recently I discovered gog.com and I started playing some of my old favorites again. Meaning one needs to contend with Wine.

I hesitate to recommend wine to people or getting anyones hopes up regarding running Windows application. It largely doesn't work for most tasks I tried, it's complicated and integrates poorly. I doubt any good will come from pushing it as a solution, it hasn't been one in the decade or so it has been around, it isn't likely to become one in the future.

[lisati]

I've tried it with one or two programs, one of which was e-sword (v 7.7.7, of which I have an "official" disk). Other than that I either fire up Windows when needed, or use an Ubuntu-friendly piece of software.

[endotherm]

the only thing i use it for is ReNamer (for times when pyRenamer just isn't quite enough). used to play civ4 thru it, but now I just dual boot. otherwise, i try not to have it installed if possible.

[KiwiNZ]

Never touch it or alcoholic drink.

As for Wine the other thingy, hate it , slow , buggy and just plain annoying. If I need to use a Windows product I use windows to launch it.