Playing Nice: Reviews of CrossOver Office, WineX 4

JimLynch writes "One of the more common questions experienced Linux users get asked by those considering migrating from Windows to Linux is, "Will my Windows applications run under Linux?" Thanks to the folks at CodeWeavers, the answer to that is yes--for some applications, anyway." And Dan Dole writes "Linuxlookup.com staff member Rich reviews Cedega (WineX 4.0), give it a 20/20 score & Editors Choice Award. "The release of Transgaming's newest version of WineX, renamed Cedega, was met with considerable enthusiasm and interest in the Linux community last week. So much so that their server was inaccessible the day of release. Cedega is claimed to be much improved, offering the ability to play recent games released for Windows "seamlessly and transparently" under Linux. They provided me with a copy, and I was curious to see if it lived up to the hype.""

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Re:Confused at the aim of this project

[dangerz]

Because there are 4 and a half billion windows programs that people still need. I've used linux for almost 7 years now, and the whole time I've also had a windows box sitting there next to me.

Thanks to Codeweavers, I can finally only go on that windows box when I want to play games. Soon enough, I won't even have to do that thanks to WineX.

You see, yes linux to us is much much better. But to the rest of the world, of which programs are still mainly suited for, they like windows. And until the programmers stop developing programs for windows that we need, we need to be able to run them. And that's where Transgaming and Codeweavers come in.

And although there are linux alternatives, realize that the Windows counterparts have had years to tweak everything before we even started. It'll be a while till linux catches up and Crossover is helping to keep that while going smooth. OpenOffice is a great alternative to Microsoft Office. Gimp is no alternative to Photoshop though. There is no Macromedia Flash for linux. Crossover fixes all that.

I love linux just as much as everyone else, but even I see the faults that linux has. It's not until you see those faults though and how well linux actually handles them that you truly appreciate this operating system.