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

[Neil Oosthuizen]

Hi,

Not to flog a dead horse but as in many things "your mileage my vary"... I
recently got Crossover and I think it is absolutely brilliant.  Thus far
all of the applications that they say works, works (and tons others they
don't explicitly say works too).  I wish I had gotten it sooner (I haven't
booted into my Windows 7 partition in more than a month because I am
playing all the games I have it for on Ubuntu currently).

I am a very happy customer :)


Neil

On 6 June 2012 22:29, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net> wrote:

> Hi Nico,
>
> Thanks for this, but my experience of Crossover was not as rosy. My
> Windows apps are running well on Virtualbox and it is not interfering with
> the stability of my Ubuntu system at all. This was my main problem with
> Crossover.
>
> Jan
>
>
>
> On 06/06/2012 19:31, Nico Michael(iBurst) wrote:
>
>> 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/<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
>>>
>>>
>>
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