How to work wine on Linux

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Hi,

I want to know how does one install and work wine on Linux? Also would Linux mint be fine for this?

can wine run directs 9, 10, 11 games and applications?

Also, could one make windows programs with Linux.
 
Wine runs some Windows programs, but not many games

You install it and use the Window to install and run the MS-Windows application

I cannot answer the 3rd question, but I doubt it
 
Mint is fine, install PlayOnLinux since it comes preconfigured to install all the most popular Windows applications and games. PlayOnLinux takes care of most of the configuration and you just install what you need.

Some applications works well, as well as games. If it is a popular program or game it will most likely work with WINE.

Everything is possible, but why would you want to use Linux to develop for Windows?
Why not develop then for Linux rather?
 
Mr.CookieMonster said:
Hi,

I want to know how does one install and work wine on Linux? Also would Linux mint be fine for this?

can wine run directs 9, 10, 11 games and applications?

Also, could one make windows programs with Linux.
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Sysem said:
If you want to develop Windows programs, you shouldn't be using Linux...
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It is possible, but not recommended. You can use mingw to compile Windows applications in Linux.
 
MyWorld said:
Mint is fine, install PlayOnLinux since it comes preconfigured to install all the most popular Windows applications and games. PlayOnLinux takes care of most of the configuration and you just install what you need.

Some applications works well, as well as games. If it is a popular program or game it will most likely work with WINE.

Everything is possible, but why would you want to use Linux to develop for Windows?
Why not develop then for Linux rather?
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Where do I download PlayOnLinux? Can it run DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 games? I want to be able to play Need for Speed The Run and the upcoming need for speed Most wanted 2012 game.

Everything is possible, but why would you want to use Linux to develop for Windows?
Why not develop then for Linux rather?
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I want to move to using Linux now instead of windows. Do universities offer programming in Linux for Linux?
 
Mr.CookieMonster said:
Where do I download PlayOnLinux? Can it run DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 games? I want to be able to play Need for Speed The Run and the upcoming need for speed Most wanted 2012 game.



I want to move to using Linux now instead of windows. Do universities offer programming in Linux for Linux?
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You can get PlayOnLinux here: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

I doubt very much you will get new DirectX games running with properly with wine. Best is to dual boot with Windows 7 if you want to play games.

Regarding programming, it all depends what you want to do. What language do you want to learn?
 
Mr.CookieMonster said:
I want to move to using Linux now instead of windows. Do universities offer programming in Linux for Linux?
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Yeah, most universities offer enough courses that are either done with Linux or done where using any OS is possible.
 
Download them both and try them out yourself?

Linux is Linux (oversimplification, I know), only difference is the window manager you choose to support, Unity (Ubuntu), Gnome 3 (Fedora), Mate/Cinnamon (Mint), KDE (PCLinuxOS, Chakra).

I use only KDE (Arch Linux), my wife and daughters use Cinnamon (Mint) and my netbook uses Mate (Mint).
 
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