What do you use to run Windows applications on your Linux desktop?

Aug 19, 2008 By LJ Staff

Cedega

1% (19 votes)

Crossover

4% (62 votes)

VirtualBox

19% (311 votes)

VMWare

16% (262 votes)

Wine

39% (641 votes)

Other (please tell us in the comments what you're using)

2% (35 votes)

I don't need or want to run Windows apps on my Linux desktop

20% (333 votes)

Total votes: 1663

Comments

VMware ,crossXoffice, Wine

Submitted by slakware on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 18:42.

I'm using applications for windows under Linux with VMware workstation edition, with Wine too, but as often as not with other infamous package - "crossXoffice". I find this package accidentally like torrent.It's very handy like other tools and simply organize.

Love Linux!

Bordeaux url

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 00:06.

the last link dont works here is url

http://www.bordeauxgroup.com/

I use Bordeaux

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 23:49.

I use Bordeaux and it works very good for me.
Bordeaux for Linux & BSD and it only cost me 20.00

Boris

Windows Developer on Linux...

Submitted by John Suykerbuyk (not verified) on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 20:26.

As a full time windows developer, I am a bit of hypocrite in that I only run Linux myself. I've used VMware and VirtualBox on and off over the past couple of years, in the end having to stick to VMWare as the USB support with VIrtualBox was too flaky for far too long with Suse and 2.6 kernels.

Have to say, that I have never had so stable of a windows development machine as I do now. That is not till I built my windows development system in a VM running under Linux.

xine

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 03:35.

xine

None

Submitted by smpratz on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 03:09.

Well, none unless you count ies4linux, which I last ran a year or so ago when putting together a web page for a friend.

qemu

Submitted by Monomelodies (not verified) on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 01:04.

qemu here, too. Used to run vmware, but alien binaries + Debian unstable kept breaking. Qemu definitely looks slower than vmware, but that could also have to do with the fact that I just bunged my vm-image in there. Might go faster with a "native image", haven't tested yet. I use it almost solely for checking websites in various explorers and win-versions of browsers tho.

qemu-kvm w/ virtio paravirt

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 23:40.

qemu-kvm w/ virtio paravirt net drivers for windows

I use QEMU

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 21:43.

I use QEMU
http://bellard.org/qemu/

Wine + virtualbox

Submitted by Jamie Bullock (not verified) on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 16:24.

I hardly ever run windows apps, but if I want to try something, I'll shoot for virtualbox first. I might also try wine.

Wine works for me.

Submitted by Danny Luker (not verified) on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 08:05.

I have use for only one program that is Windows only. My Bible study program is SwordSearcher ( http://www.swordsearcher.com/ ). It runs very well under Wine. With that single exception, I find everything else I need in GNU/Linux compatible software.

Win Apps on Linux Desktop

Submitted by NPMurphy (not verified) on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 00:57.

I rdesktop to my laptop or VNC to another computer running Debian/Xen, where I have Debian, Ubuntu, Vista and/or XP running in virtual systems.

wine and virtualbox

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 20:32.

I use wine for games, although rarely and mostly because I was curious to try the games I bought over the years.

I use virtualbox for one educational software that won't run in wine well, which I must run regularly.

Other than those, I don't use any windows programs. Everything I need for home computing is in the Linux distribution.

Blackberry and gotomypc

Submitted by Stu (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 18:13.

I have a VIrtualBox VM setup and at this point I only power it up for syncing my blackberry once in a while(over bluetooth, which isn't actually working atm), and for using gotomypc to connect to work. I'm always tossing around the idea of bailing on gtkpod to go back to iTunes too.

I use wine but its rare and

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 17:55.

I use wine but its rare and I really avoid using applications for windows.
There are almost always something that can replace the windows application.

I use Wine for most of the

Submitted by Ashwin (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 14:47.

I use Wine for most of the applications, but for apps that just flat out fail in Wine I have a VirtualBox VM of XP ready to go..

andLinux

Submitted by gary katsevman (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 14:28.

Actually, I am doing the opposite. I am running linux apps on windows using andLinux (andlinux.org) i mainly use it for the terminal, but I can run essentially any linux app i want that works on ubuntu, either xfce or kde distros of ubuntu.

subject? subject??? the subject is the question that was asked.

Submitted by kae verens (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 14:19.

wow, that comment link was well hidden!

I agree with jborgmann. I use wine when I'm not too concerned about "authenticity" and qemu when I need a valid IE6 or IE7 session.

grr... I need to fill a captcha to get a preview, and then a captcha yet again to publish. annoying.

Only one choice?

Submitted by jborgmann (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 14:03.

You really need to ditch the radio buttons for checkboxes or reword the question. I use 4 of the choices (depending on the application I want to run) and I am sure there are others who do as well but I/we can only select one?

-jb