If Wine did not work well with either the program itself or with a virtualized package of that program, then the alternative would be to run that program, or virtualized package of it, in a Windows VM. ![]() For purposes of virtualizing software, I had the free Cameyo virtualizer, and had also downloaded the 60-day free trial of VMware’s ThinApp. For some programs, it seemed it might be better to created a virtualized (i.e., portable) version of the program, with all those tweaks built in, and then run that package on Wine. But I was not sure that Wine could accommodate and store all of the additions and adjustments that a person might make when installing a program, adding plugins, doing updates, and so forth. I wanted to reduce my dependence on Microsoft, and anyway I expected a virtual machine (VM) to yield worse performance than a program running directly on a native installation, so my first choice was to run those Windows programs in Linux using Wine. The question was, in what form would I continue to use them? As described in a separate post, I did not find good Linux replacements for some of those programs, and therefore planned to continue to use those Windows programs. ![]() I had identified a substantial number of Windows programs for which I would be seeking Linux alternatives. ![]() I was in the process of transitioning from Windows 7 to Linux.
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