With this tool, Zorin OS deliver great flexibility and makes it easier for users to maneuver the desktop, no matter what operating system they used before. ChaletOS is one of the most suitable Linux distro alternatives for Windows users by its looks.
ChaletOS comes with a complete and unique customization set which is quite comparable to that of Zorin OS but much more extensive and consistent all through the operating system.
Robolinux will attract users with its uniqueness. If you are looking for Linux alternative for Windows and also likes to bring all programs with you, then Robolinux is the right option to choose. Robolinux includes Stealth VM, a virtual machine that they claim can run any Windows program without any lag. In addition, Robolinux has a tool that allows you to clone your entire Windows C drive.
This means that you can migrate all of your pre-existing programs and data. Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu and is the most elegant and beautiful Linux distro alternative for Windows and Mac users. Kubuntu is a free, complete, and open-source alternative to Windows and Mac OS X which contains everything you need to work, play or share. Kubuntu is an official flavor of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the KDE Plasma Desktop instead of the Unity graphical environment. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu and it is one of the popular distros for newbies.
Linux Mint provides full out-of-the-box multimedia support by including some proprietary software and comes bundled with a variety of free and open-source applications.
Linux Mint is an elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use. Linux Lite primarily targets Windows users. It aims to provide a complete set of applications to assist users with their everyday computing needs. You may find this useful as a way to test buggy games that change possibly unsuccessfully the screen resolution.
Confining them to a window can allow for more control over them at the possible expense of decreased usability. Sizes you might want to try are x the default or x Windows requires a fairly rigid drive configuration that Wine imitates. Most people are familiar with the standard notation of the A: drive representing the floppy disk, the C: drive representing the primary system disk, etc.
Wine uses the same concept and maps those drives to the underlying native filesystem. Wine drive configuration is relatively simple. In winecfg under the Drives tab you'll see buttons to add and remove available drives.
When you choose to add a drive, a new entry will be made and a default drive mapping will appear. You can change where this drive points to by changing what's in the Path: box.
If you're unsure of the exact path you can choose Browse to search for it. Removing a drive is as easy as selecting the drive and clicking Remove. Winecfg has the ability to automatically detect the drives available on your system. It's recommended you try this before attempting to configure drives manually. Simply click on the Autodetect button to have Wine search for drives on your system.
You may be interested in configuring your drive settings outside of winecfg , in which case you're in luck because it's quite easy. Wine automatically sets up two drives the first time you run Wine:. Take note of the DOS-style naming convention used for links - the format is a letter followed by a colon, such as a:. Wine can work with quite a few different audio subsystems. You can see the selected driver that Wine figures out for you under the Audio tab.
You can manually select which device will be used for Output, Input, Voice output and Voice input. For example you can choose the digital output of your sound device instead of the analog one. Wine can load Windows themes if you have them available. While this certainly isn't necessary in order to use Wine or applications, it does allow you to customize the look and feel of a program. Wine supports the newer MSStyles type of themes.
Unlike the older Microsoft Plus! This is more or less the same kind of theming that modern Linux desktops have supported for years. If you'd like to try this out:. All of the settings you change in winecfg , with exception of the drive settings, are ultimately stored in the registry.
In Windows, this is a central repository for the configuration of applications and the operating system. Likewise, Wine implements a registry and some settings not found in Winecfg can be changed within it there's actually more of a chance you'll need to dip into the registry to change the settings of an application than Wine itself.
Now, the fact that Wine itself uses the registry to store settings has been controversial. Some people argue that it's too much like Windows. To counter this there are several things to consider. First, it's impossible to avoid implementing a registry simply because applications expect to be able to store their settings there.
In order for Wine to store and access settings in a separate configuration file would require a separate set of code to basically do the same thing as the Win32 APIs Wine already implements.
But here are the basic registry keys you might need to know about for now:. Now, what you're probably wondering is how that translates into Wine structure. These files are automatically created the first time you use Wine. A set of global settings is stored in the wine. The first time you run Wine the wine. The registry is also updated automatically if wine. Note: Older Wine versions before 1.
This is no longer necessary. It is not advisable to edit these files to modify the registry as they are managed by Wine internally. Use regedit. An easy way to access and change the registry is with the regedit tool. Similar to the Windows program it replaces, regedit serves to provide a system level view of the registry containing all of the keys.
When you start it, you'll immediately notice that the cryptic keys displayed in the text file are organized in a hierarchical fashion. To navigate through the registry, click on the keys on the left to drill down deeper. To delete a key, click on it and choose Delete from the Edit menu. To add a key or value, locate where you want to put it and choose New from the Edit menu. Likewise, you modify an existing key by highlighting it in the right-hand window pane and choosing Modify from the Edit menu.
Another way to perform these same actions is to right-click on the key or value. Most of the settings you change within winecfg are written to this area of the registry. With the above file structure, it is possible for a system administrator to configure the system so that a system Wine installation and applications can be shared by all the users, and still let the users all have their own personalized configuration.
An administrator can, after having installed Wine and any Windows application software he wants the users to have access to, copy the resulting system. You might be tempted to do the same for user. Every user should have their own copy of that file along with the permissions to modify it.
You'll want to pay attention to drive mappings. If you're sharing the system. As a general rule of thumb, the closer you keep your drive mappings to the default configuration, the easier this will be to manage.
You may or may not be able to share some or all of the actual c: drive you originally installed the application to. A final word of caution: be careful with what you do with the administrator account - if you do copy or link the administrator's registry to the global registry, any user might be able to read the administrator's preferences, which might not be good if sensitive information passwords, personal information, etc is stored there. Only use the administrator account to install software, not for daily work; use an ordinary user account for that.
You'll find an up-to-date list of useful registry keys and values in the wiki. This section is meant to cover the rest of the things you can configure. It also serves as a collection of tips and tricks to get the most out of using Wine. Since Wine 2. Make sure you have the needed rights to access your computer's serial and parallel ports. On Linux, a user must typically be a member of the sys or dialout group to access serial ports, or the lp group to access parallel ports.
After editing the registry, shut down Wine with wineserver -k and the next time Wine runs a program, your changes will take effect. If you use a version of Wine prior to 2. Font configuration, once a nasty problem, is now much simpler. If you have a collection of TrueType fonts in Windows it's simply a matter of copying the.
Wine can interact directly with the local CUPS printing system to find the printers available on your system. After that you'll need to make sure you have xscanimage available for use. Currently it is shipped with the sane-frontends package but it may not be installed with your distribution.
Scanner access is currently known to have problems. If you find it works for you, please consider updating this section of the user guide to provide details on using SANE with Wine. The ODBC system within Wine, as with the printing system, is designed to hook across to the Unix system at a high level. Thus if you configure Wine to use the built-in odbc This may involve downloading code or binary packages etc.
Typically such systems will include a tool, such as isql , which will allow you to access the data from the command line so that you can check that the system is working. If that environment variable is not set then it looks for a library called libodbc.
For example as root you could run the commands:. The last step in configuring this is to ensure that Wine is set up to run the built-in version of odbc One word of warning: some programs actually cheat a little and bypass the ODBC library.
EXE under Wine. Compare the output of these programs with the output on a native Windows machine. Some things, such as protocols, may be missing because they rely on being installed along with the operating system. If so, you may be able to copy missing functionality from an existing Windows installation as well as any registry values required. A native Windows installation configured to be used by Wine should work the same way it did when run natively.
Please report any other successes to the wine-devel mailing list. There are times when you've been trying everything, you even killed a cat at full moon and ate it with rotten garlic and foul fish while doing the Devil's Dance, yet nothing helped to make some damn program work on some Wine version.
Don't despair, we're here to help you Look at the output from wine --version to make sure you're running a recent version of Wine. Launch winecfg and look over the settings to make sure you have settings that look normal. In several cases using different Windows version settings can help.
Make sure that there are no problems whatsoever with the packages that Wine depends on gcc, glibc, X libraries, OpenGL! Instruct Wine via winecfg to use either desktop mode, or normal managed mode. That can make a lot of difference, too. Maybe your app is using some kind of copy protection?
Many copy protections currently don't work on Wine. Some might work in the future, though. Sometimes Wine installation process changes and new versions of Wine account on these changes. This is especially true if your setup was created long time ago. Use the setup process that's recommended for your Wine distribution to create new configuration.
There is a really good chance that someone has already tried to do the same thing as you. I left it for a while and nothing changes so I closed the software manager. The icon for Crossover was gone and the software manager lists it but has no description of it, which it had before I did the uninstall. I guess it's gone. Now to look into virtualbox. Post by rgand » Wed Apr 20, pm That darn Apex sure is a troublesome one to use within Cinnamon.
There isn't any particular rush on this since I managed to repair my Windows boot so it works again but I do want to eliminate the need for Windows at all. I am a little hesitant to 'corrupt' my Cinnamon with Windows in any form.
As it is, I have a dual boot with two separate drives and when I'm done with Windows, I just take out the drive and update the grub menu. That said, I see a handful of versions of virtualbox in the software manager. The reviews seem to show both virtualbox-nonfree and virtualbox to be good but with some bad raps in both. Is there any distinct advantage to either version?
To be honest, I have not the slightest idea about the sense to provide VB in the repositories without keeping them up to date. What VB provides with the x. The version in the repositories are far outdated and repeatedly give problems for the users, because they miss those fixes. On the other hand the downloads from Oracle have shown in all those years as solid.
So the strong recommendation in this case is to leave the repository versions and download from Oracle. Make sure, that you take the version for Ubuntu Another aspect is the fact, that in the one or other instance the VB-forum might give better advice than we can. We are working at that point. But they regularly refuse help, if they find out, that a non official Oracle build is used.
Post by rgand » Wed Apr 20, pm Thanks, Cosmo. I appreciate the guidance on VB. Direct from Oracle it will be. I'm only a couple months into Mint and still learning loads.
This forum has been a real asset to me. Post by rgand » Thu Apr 21, am Cosmo. As much as I miss drinking wine, I have enjoyed exploring what is out there that is generally healthy for me and my growing baby. While exploring, I also came across quite a few places where I could purchase non-alcoholic wine! I have tried one of these brands before and though nothing takes the place of a true bottle of wine I am looking forward to seeing what is out there that tastes convincing!
For now, here are some great resources for finding wine with the alcohol removed…. A great website for pregnant or nursing women, and a blog with related material. BeClink 0. Non Alcoholic Wines Online Domestic and imported non-alcoholic wines as well as juices! There are so many reasons to seek out wine alternatives or alternatives to alcohol.
Whatever reason you have for not consuming alcohol, I hope you find these resources inspiring. Wine Alternatives: What can I drink instead of wine?
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