On Apr 11, 2014 3:41 PM, "Dick Dowdell" <<a href="mailto:dick.dowdell@gmail.com">dick.dowdell@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Oracle VirtualBox is a more robust solution than Wine for running Windows applications under Ubuntu. This answer makes no sense. You still need an OS. This thread is about replacing XP, which has reached EOL. Your answer is incomplete at best. VirtualBox doesn't run windows programs. It runs OS's in a virtual environment. Further more, some people can't take the performance hit of running their application virtualized. It may additionally surprise you to learn that some things actually run better under wine. The Eve Online client, for example.