On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:08 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What makes Wine a serious substitute for Windows is not IMO the huge > apps like Office or even Photoshop - it's the thousands of little > business crapware applications which small businesses utterly rely on, > but the company disappeared years ago. I'm more surprised when such > things don't run on Wine than when they do. (We run such an app on > Wine at work.) +1 Abandonware is indeed one of the huge reasons for Wine. Small apps do tend to run well in Wine -- the larger the app, the more likely it is to use lots of Windows APIs, and the more likely it is to run into a bug in Wine. That said, I know plenty of older apps that don't run well yet. - Dan
