General :: Run Most My Windows Apps ?
Apr 23, 2010
Ok I am finally fed up enough with Microsoft to actually consider making my primary computer system a 100% Linux system... I build a really nice system about a year ago and got Windows 7 64 bit edition (all software is legal and legit) and my computer frequently freezes at random times... I'm pretty sure its not the ram or the motherboard and I run two hard drives with raid0 striping... I have used various Windows OS's on here and they all randomly freeze up during operation.. sometimes during heavy gaming and sometimes right when my system starts up... I dont think its a heat issue since I have a huge and efficient $75 heatsink/fan combo designed specifically for my cpu...
If I make this move, it will cost me a lot since I use a lot of Music and applications such as Ableton Live and Reason, and 3D software like Cinema 4D and zBrush.... Photoshop CS4... and games like Call of Duty MW2....
Will I still be able to use all my apps? I have heard of Wine but have never used it and I dont know how much you can do with Windows apps on Linux these days...
My system: i7 Quad Core/6GB ram/EVGA X58 mobo/GeForce9800GTX...
What I am looking for here is assurance that I will be able to run most of my major applications on Linux with out losing much system efficiency.
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Feb 15, 2010
I just picked up an AcerAspireOne AOA150-1777 netbook that I've loaded slackware 13 onto. I'm using fluxbox as my window manager. Screen resolutions look good, running at 1024x600, as I set in xorg.conf. My question is, some applications, (gimp/firefox are good examples) open windows that are too big for the screen. I was wondering if there was a way I can set apps to use the limits of my screen size.
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What do you recommend? I bought a nice Nokia N95 but of course, applications are only for Windows....
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Feb 27, 2011
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Feb 26, 2011
I got tired of having to boot in Windows XP to run a couple of apps that don't run in Wine. I've heard a bout a virtual machine, virtualbox and all of that. Sorry, I need a crash course. What do I need to download/install? Do I need a WXP live CD or something like that?
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Mar 15, 2011
So, all I want to do is to shrink sda5 (Ubuntu partition) to 145GBs. Extend sda3 (Windows7) to 145GBs Leave the middle chunk (aprox 400GBs) as it's own free space partition as sort of a file sharing folder for Windows and Ubuntu to share. I use Ubuntu as my main OS and download movies etc. through it but use Windows Mediac Center and other apps on Win7 that (obviously) can't be run in Ubuntu.
So, can anyone give me some help at all. I'll use a live USB version of GParted to do the partition editing but I just want to double check with you guys before I touch anything. =]
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Jan 26, 2011
I'm somewhat knew to Linux (CentOS), so WINE is completely foreign to me also. I'm immediately interested in TaxAct, which is how I learned about WINE. My question is whether my system will maintain the same stability that Linux is known for, and whether my CentOS build will keep it's current RHEL integrity after I install WINE, and probably other Windows Apps. Your experience with WINE is coveted.
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Jun 27, 2010
i installed windows xp last night on vbox useing ubuntu 1004 as the host os
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Mar 27, 2011
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May 3, 2011
When working in an XP VirtualBox I can't use Alt-Tab to switch to my Linux Apps as VirtualBox captures the keys for Windows. So I tended to make a lot of use on the Application list on the old System Tray/Taskbar. I could click on the application's entry in the taskbar and that application would come up. When I needed to return to the Windows App, I clicked again and the application would then minimise so I can see the Windows app. Also I have been using the SUPER button in conjunction with 'E' to raise the Home Directory (just to keep it consistent with Windows).
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Nov 5, 2010
I want to move entirely from windows to linux. My college has ubuntu running on the labs. But i have a thing fr Fedora. I want to install fedora & run win32 apps via wine. But just in case some apps need strictly windoze i was wondering about using BART PE as a minimal windows application use. Does BARTPE run all win32 apps like CAD, dialup client, burn iso, install on a small harddisk,boot up with linux?
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Apr 23, 2010
My desktop is running 'buntu 9.10 and I have recently aquired a couple of half decent servers running Windows server 2003. I have a few windows app's that I use regularly for work that I have had limited success in running with wine or in vm's. I stumbled upon a how to to call apps in a vm to run seamlessly on the host desktop and did some playing and have succeeded in calling app's on my servers from my 'buntu desktop, the command I have set in my launcher for one of them (DIALux)
My question is, can I change the default application/file association in 'buntu with a custom command so I can double click on a file and have it open in one of these remote app's??If I can, what is the correct custom command to be using as using the above doesn't work at all, it just tries to open the file with rdesktop not the remote app.
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Jun 26, 2010
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Dec 10, 2010
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Jul 14, 2010
my wife needs the 'horrible' dos because she uses - Russian - programs written for windows only.
i suppose:
they - the Russians - never discovered the linux-os (very surprising)
or
she - my wife - got the wrong version.
my Q:
is there an easy way to run windows-progs on ubuntu 10.04 ?
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Oct 26, 2010
How to solve this:
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In Shell:
kdesu /usr/bin/gimp
gimp: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgegl-0.1.so.0: undefined symbol: g_dgettext
I cannot run most of apps, including mono.
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Jan 20, 2010
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Feb 25, 2011
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the problem is for all other X apps. For example when i run xclock, nothing happens on the local PC the prompt continues blinking without any reponse, no windows opens and the strangest thing, the shell is stucked. No possible to interrupt with [CTRL]+c the onyl thing to do is close the shell window
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Sep 8, 2011
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