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good or bad talk about wine here

WineX, anyone?
Though its possible to run most Windows .exe apps through wine, games are a much different matter. This is because they rely much more on directX calls, and as of now even the latest bleeding edge betas of WineX only have marginal support for DX9. And if its an online game, they use .NET framework utilities and ActiveDirectory things, things like that. This requires integration of linux apps like Samba and Ono(I believe thats what its called). All in all, its a big pain in the a**, but its possible for most natively windows programs to run on linux in the end. I've seen everything from MS Office to Battlefield 2 running under WINE.

Yes, Mono is what I meant. I know the logo is a gorilla face, at least.

Wine is an amazing program - they've reverse engineered most of windows to get things to run, but MS keeps updating things, too, so it's a never ending battle...

I play World of WarCraft under a flavor of wine... I run Photoshop under a different flavor (I prefer gimp, but I need 3 plugins that Gimp doesn't provide)... in the past, I've run Internet Explorer under wine (some sites require it), I've run games such as StarCraft, WarCraft3, and other similar games under wine.

Basically I look at it as this: each program I run under wine needs to be installed, and thus, needs to be tweaked properly. Wine isn't a "Install once, run anywhere" type of program. In fact, some wine setups can get pretty complex. Right now I have 3 versions of wine installed just for that fact...

GOOD I had truble playing MP3's on suze linux 10 no good players thay look at the tags example I would try to play an mp3 with AMEROK player and insted of it eek it as 4mins and6sec it saw it like 4.06 sec scream so I instaled real player 8 {windos verson} with WINE