what to replace XP with?

byblyk · #1 (**permalink**) 05-23-2005

Hey i've got a laptop that is my main computer right now and i wanted to put something *nix on it. However i do need something that will run some of my windows apps... mostly my games haha. I don't want to have to run a third party app like wine. Which distros would be right for me?

zazzybob · #2 (**permalink**) 05-23-2005

None of them.

If you want to run Windows applications you're looking at two real choices....
1) Use Wine / WineX / Crossover Office / etc...
2) Use something like VMware to run a Windows guest on a Linux host.

Either way, Linux isn't going to run your Windows executables natively.

Cheers
ZB

byblyk · #3 (**permalink**) 05-23-2005

how well does wine run memory intensive programs? And i'm looking it up now but just incase i get a reply first here then whats the diff between wine and wine X?

EDIT: i just looked up everything and got all my answers. Thank you for the help bob.

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