Which wine program?

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  1. bingefeller, May 15, 2014

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    Hi guys,

    I'm not too sure on which WINE program I should use for Mavericks in order for me to run some Windows programs. I know about Wineskin and Wine Is Not An Emulator. Are these the two main ones or are there others? Which one is the easiest to use?
     
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  2. tuthill, May 15, 2014

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    Crossover

    If you have to ask you should probably seriously consider trying Crossover as it simplifies things greatly.

    http://www.codeweavers.com/products/

    Not free but well worth the cost. Of course the better alternative, IMO, is to just run Windows in a VM such as Parallels as pretty well all your Windows software will work seamlessly.
     
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  3. bingefeller, May 16, 2014

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    I had seen Crossover but I don't want to pay as I only want to run 2 Windows programs.
     
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  4. maflynn, May 16, 2014

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    Cross-over is the best and easiest to use.

    Are you sure your two programs are compatible with Wine. The major issue is that not too many apps are compatible.
     
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  5. MisterMe, May 16, 2014

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    Three things are being conflated here--two by you and one by tuthill:
    1. Wine is Not an Emulator—This is the famous recursive acronym that is WINE itself. WINE is not a program. WINE is an opensource set of cloned Windows32 APIs. The APIs represented in the cloned set is a subset of the real Windows32 APIs. As a result, many Windows applications run under WINE, but many others do not. You must check a list of Windows applications that run under WINE.
    2. CrossOver—This is a commercial superset of WINE. Because more cloned Windows APIs are included, more Windows applications will run under CrossOver than under base WINE. The CrossOver website has a very good list of compatible applications.
    3. WineSkin—This is an alternative to WineBottler. It is used to convert Windows applications plus their required support files into double-clickable OS X .app bundles.
     
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