Garbage! (in regards to WINE compatibility of course). It categorizes applications into Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Garbage ratings, with the applications rated as Platinum being the most compatible and problem-free and applications rated Garbage being. Well not really, there are thousand of applications (10,349 to be precise) whose status and compatibility to run with WINE can be viewed at the WINE AppDB. Note that it doesn't require Windows at all. WINE is a completely free alternative of the Windows API and has 'no Microsoft code' whatsoever. exe's on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and yes Mac OS X too! In fact the most popular use of WINE is to run Windows games on Linux! In English this means that you can run Windows applications i.e. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs.' Nah, you won't like to drink anything with such a name! Formally stated 'WINE is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. WINE is another of those recursive acronyms which stands for WINE Is Not an Emulator (Amazing how they come up with recursive names, GNU and PHP are other examples) Chances are that if you are into Linux you might have heard of it. There is a solution for all these situations and it has been around for sometime now. Well if you wish for the same, your wish has been granted.

Games are an important mention here because although the Linux games are catching up and going 3D and stuff, one would have to admit that there are a larger number of games for Windows that keep us going back to the Windows World. It has happened to me in the past when I would switch over into Windows to play Counter Strike and Half Life and some people also wanted Photoshop on Linux because the GIMP requires some adjusting to on the interface.

As much as I love Linux and Open Source, sometimes you happen to love a Windows application so much that you wonder if only this was available on Linux I would completely switch. There are thousands and thousands of applications available for Linux, and even more being developed as you read this.

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