09-06-2015, 12:50 AM
I tried wine and play on linux when I first switched to linux and I have to say I find it all a little too round about for my taste. Last I checked play on linux requires different versions of wine to run different programs, so you could end up with several different versions of wine installed just to get your favorite windows programs running. If that isn't the case now hopefully someone will point it out. I personally use windows xp in virtualbox and run my old stand by programs in their "natural environment" this seems to work out better for me, as I no longer have to research how to run my programs in wine or play on linux. For anyone trying to run windows programs I would recommend virtualbox over either of the alternatives.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison