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How to run windows softwares

Asked by Samarth Kumar

Recently i have introduced my friend with ubuntu as he was fed-up with his windows os always crashing down. Now he wants to run his windows softwares like photoshop and some games on ubuntu. How can he do so? What packages he need to install in order to run windows based softwares?

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

You have to use Windows Emulators in order to run Windows executables in Ubuntu. You have choices such as:

the Free one:

- WinE

sudo apt-get install wine

With price:

- CrossOver

HTH.

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#2

You have to use Windows Emulators in order to run Windows executables in Ubuntu. You have choices such as:

the Free one:

- WinE

sudo apt-get install wine

You also have to check if the applications you want executed is fully supported with WinE

With price:

- CrossOver

HTH.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

You have three solutions (and I use personally all of them).
1) Dual boot, i.e. Windows alongside from Ubuntu (quite only solution for 3D games).
2) Wine which is an emulation of Windows system libraries (works fine with office software and some listed games).
3) Usage of a virtual machine (like Virtual Box) in which you install Windows (works for all but 3D games).

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