Reviews of Wine

1. 
   netean

   Reviewing 1.1.28 (Aug 25, 2009)

   I'm pretty impressed with wine. it lets me run A LOT of windows apps. sometimes flawlessly, sometimes not, but the fact it can run them at all I think is amazing.
   
   I use wine to run a couple of .net apps in (.net v2)
   and dreamweaver cs4 (works perfectly)
   photoshop cs2 also works perfectly
   
   it can run iTunes too (although why you'd want to!) .
   
   Consider for a second what it is trying to do - take software designed for one operating system and make it work in another. It's pretty damn amazing.
   
   I would love to be able to run Word 07 (do NOT mention openoffice to me!) and photoshop cs3/cs4 and lightroom but otherwise it pretty much does everything I need and runs all my most used windows apps pretty darned well.
2. 
   JEdwardP

   Reviewing 1.1.22 (May 24, 2009)

   I've always read people saying WINE doesn't work well, and I'm sure for many applications, it still doesn't, but since I switched to Linux as my primary OS in July '07, I've only had the need to regularly run two Windows applications, Mp3tag for personal use and the Citrix ICA client for business (I can't get the Linux version of the Citrix client to run properly for some reason).
   
   WINE runs both those programs almost perfectly, and does so on an almost daily basis, which means that for my purposes, it's a five-star program.
3. 
   Joco

   Reviewing 1.1.22 (May 23, 2009)

   I am grateful for Wine allowing me to run Windows text based applications where there is no equivalence (of equal performance) in Linux. For me these are archivers and MP3 taggers. Everytime I tried a Windows game, and these are simple board or puzzle games. Not only the game didn't work, once exit back to Ubuntu, the graphical configuration is totally wrecked and took me a lot of time to fix. Since then, if I really need to run these WIndows games, I use a Virtual Machine.
4. 
   myboy

   Reviewing 1.1.21 (May 11, 2009)

   While the project is noble, there's no way I'm giving 5 stars for something that only works half the time. Unless it's one of the Windows programs that has priority with the developers, odds are that it WON'T run. Or if you're lucky and it does run, it runs poorly.
5. 
   bopb99

   Reviewing 1.1.21 (May 11, 2009)

   Of course it doesn't run in vista,
   it is windows XP's api that can run programs on Unix, Linux.
   Quit wining about it and try Linux.
   
   Finally I will be able to play old games made for windows XP,
   when wine has good enough directx 9 support.

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