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[pjotr123]

I am not very happy with Wine. For one thing, it makes your machine vulnerable to a limited virus infection, because viruses can use the Wine environment on your beautiful clean shiny Linux, to do some harm. Not nearly as much as on a Windows installation, but still. Furthermore, it is not very user friendly yet. The horrible syntax needed to access the Wine Program Files, for example. Well, anyway, sometimes Wine is indispensible. But I would much rather not need it at all.Pjotr.

[pjotr123]

Wine can cause your beautiful shiny clean Linux to get a limited Windows virus infection.....

[SonoranSvensk]

Here's my little Wine success story: As most of us know, OpenOffice Presentation can't handle PowerPoint files with embedded sound. But my Windows friends keep sending me these, so I finally broke down and installed Microsoft's free PowerPoint viewer under Wine. Problem solved -- PP slideshows with sound run fine now.

[wxwz]

Yea I'm not how I can use Wine until they sort out the Virus vulnerability issues

[Evildave]

Or run windoze in a virtual machine, limiting its access to do harm.

Even better, you can set a VM up to 'revert' all changes. So you can install the stuff you want to run, take a snapshot, and browse the worst web sites in the world, open suspicious documents, etc. with it. Easy to back up, too. Much reduced Microsoft spying, as all of your 'histories' go away, too.

In fact, if you like Internet Exploiter and Outlook (or any of Microsoft's other internet connected offerings), you should probably run it in a virtual machine like that, even if you're a windoze user. Heck, ESPECIALLY if you're a windoze user. It really IS 'that bad'.