Windows programs on Linux

[johnridley]

I moved another program over to Linux on my machine last night. This is a program which under Windows (XP or 7) when re-verifying its dataset would take about 45 minutes. Under Linux, about 40 seconds to do the same job. The job involves opening and examining the contents of several thousand files.

So far every Windows program that I've installed (I try to go with native Linux software, but I have gone with Windows software for 4 or 5 programs) has run faster and at least as well if not better than it does under Windows.

I was REALLY surprised that the games I bought a couple of months ago, which require DirectX 9, ran without a hitch when installed.

Comments

[madtechie2718.livejournal.com]

Are you keeping a formal list of these successes? Be good to have a reference for those of us proposing to follow in your footsteps.

I use the Conquest dicom server a lot - on windows. There is a native Linux version, but without the graphical interface, now I'm wondering if the graphical windows version could be persuaded to work under Linux.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ingenium/dicom.html

Now the database is close to 20TB in size, it is getting a little sluggish under windows!

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I have all these good intentions of documenting setup, but since for me setting up a system is a weeks- to months-long process of "I need to do this job...oh yeah, I never installed that software." (lather, rinse, repeat) these good intentions fall by the wayside quickly.

This Linux eval was helped along quite a bit because when I installed Windows 7 back in October I DID make a simple list of all the software that I installed then, and when I went to Linux I was able to go down the list and say "OK, I need the equivalent of these things."

That list is on LJ but it's one of my many private postings, since nobody cares what software I have installed.

[dave-ifversen.livejournal.com]

I found that Photoshop 7.0 runs faster under Wine than it does in Windows (as does MS Office 2003). Also, Angela's chemical drawing software runs just ducky under wine, as do most of the games she likes to play.

I'm about to try Karmic Koala on a spare P4 machine I have laying around - we'll see how it goes.

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

The filesystem stuff really doesn't surprise me. They've been doing a bang-up job of working on the FS over the past several years. At the current job, our group has finally ported the remainder of our stuff over to Linux from OpenBSD and the speedup just on a filesystem level has been just sort of insane.

(This says somewhat more about how OpenBSD's filesystem sucks.)