[ubuntu-za] Winedoors & Crossover Re: Windows apps on Ubuntu

[Nico Michael(iBurst)]

Hi there

I have purchased crossover just over R300 online a year ago and do not 
regret it
You can download a free trial to try it out before you buy it. Novel 
recommends it.

Now I can use Microsoft Office 2007 and a whole range of windows 
programs that I can not do without

There is even a version that is suitable for running many Windows games 
that costs more.


Trying to make Microsoft Office work on  wine is doable but requires a 
lot of complicated gymnastics

Its worth the investment and very easy to use I recommend it
It was the only way I could run the full MySQL windows GUI tools which 
is not available for Linux
I can emulate Windows XP or Vista so it give me a range of programs to run


Alternately you may want something free : Winedoors :
http://www.sucka.net/2010/03/install-win32-apps-ubuntu-wine-doors/



Kind regards

Nico Michael
(Sent from ptaisp.co.za)


On 01/06/2012 17:11, Tom Bamford wrote:
> Hi Jan
>
> On 1 June 2012 17:01, Jan Greeff<jan at verslank.net>  wrote:
>> I tried Crossover, it was a disaster. There has been much talk of Wine, but
>> I have been totally unable to make anything of this, what appears to be a
>> Crossover hybrid.
> Crossover is essentially the commercial variant of Wine (it is
> actually Wine with some extra closed source components added). I am
> not a fan of either but others do have great success with various
> Windows apps.
>
>> The only thing that has worked for me is Virtualbox, which is also not
>> hassle-free. I have been told you can save the files and reinstall them
>> after upgrading via clean install, but the files appear to get corrupted.
>>
>> Gramps is not an option, so unless someone out there has found some magic
>> solution, it's back to Virtualbox for me, having to start anew with every
>> clean install.
> Migrating virtual machines in VirtualBox from one Ubuntu installation
> to another has gotten a whole lot easier in the last few releases (I
> think from VirtualBox 4.0 onwards?).
>
> The easiest method I've found is to make sure you copy the "Virtual
> Machines" folder and the ".VirtualBox" folder from your old home
> directory to your new one. Then start up VirtualBox. If you run
> VirtualBox before copying the files you can just delete the ones that
> is auto-creates and then copy them afresh.
>
> When I do this, VirtualBox picks up all my VMs in the same state as I
> left them before reinstalling.
>
> Regards
> Tom
>