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Winetricks can get you the farthest when it comes to compatibility with applications. A lot of applications actually run fine for me under Wine (except some stuff that's supposed to be heavily integrated in Windows, like IE and Office).
Try to experiment with installing only some of the winetricks, mainly the ones that you think the regular Wine libs have problems with (for example, ODBC applications won't run with Wine's internal libs, only with the winetricks). Also try copying over any and all extra DLLs from your Windows\system32 to ~/.wine/drive_c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ without overwriting any files, this should give Wine access to most of the installed-by-other-apps libraries, which makes them run more often.
Also, Wine experience tends to be different on different PCs. Wine runs fairly decent for me, even being able to handle some games (Steam: Audiosurf but not Portal for some reason. Used to, for a while, though). Since the code in Wine changes continuously it's also a good idea to wait for the next release and see if that helps.
...By the way, I use Windows/XUbuntu in a 50/50 fashion. They're both systems I have no trouble working with, though I have access to a bunch of more utilities and under Linux, the mighty useful console, and some applications that work faster than their Windows equivalents (especially immensely slow crap like Netbeans).
Try to experiment with installing only some of the winetricks, mainly the ones that you think the regular Wine libs have problems with (for example, ODBC applications won't run with Wine's internal libs, only with the winetricks). Also try copying over any and all extra DLLs from your Windows\system32 to ~/.wine/drive_c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ without overwriting any files, this should give Wine access to most of the installed-by-other-apps libraries, which makes them run more often.
Also, Wine experience tends to be different on different PCs. Wine runs fairly decent for me, even being able to handle some games (Steam: Audiosurf but not Portal for some reason. Used to, for a while, though). Since the code in Wine changes continuously it's also a good idea to wait for the next release and see if that helps.
...By the way, I use Windows/XUbuntu in a 50/50 fashion. They're both systems I have no trouble working with, though I have access to a bunch of more utilities and under Linux, the mighty useful console, and some applications that work faster than their Windows equivalents (especially immensely slow crap like Netbeans).
