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<blockquote data-quote="1200GXman" data-source="post: 1120532" data-attributes="member: 17884"><p>Hi all</p><p>If this was discussed before apologies. </p><p></p><p>So I got my hands on a decent 10 year old laptop. Struggled to get Windows loaded as it doesn't pick up the key I decided to go the Linux route to try something new. My first question to the Linux experts is if I am OK loading Ubuntu Linux. There are so many flavors that I found out through research Ubuntu it seems is the most user friendly and best with drivers.</p><p>Now my question. I saw that with the help of Wine one can, it seems, install Windows applications. I managed with a bit of struggling to install Wine but didn't get time to do Windows apps testing.</p><p>My plans for this laptop is the following:</p><p>I want to play MAME games.</p><p>I still have my original Starcraft and Starcraft Broodwar cds that I would like to play again.</p><p>Will this work? I am especially concerned if installing by running a setup.exe installer in Linux because obviously it doesn't have the Windows registry to modify with installing. Or am I missing something.</p><p>Then I also got a original Office 2013 cd. Can I install this using Wine? </p><p></p><p>I am in the IT field and have years ago played on Unix. Actually we did our programming on a Unix mainframe when I was a student. Now I am more doing Windows stuff but wanted to try something different with this project.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1200GXman, post: 1120532, member: 17884"] Hi all If this was discussed before apologies. So I got my hands on a decent 10 year old laptop. Struggled to get Windows loaded as it doesn't pick up the key I decided to go the Linux route to try something new. My first question to the Linux experts is if I am OK loading Ubuntu Linux. There are so many flavors that I found out through research Ubuntu it seems is the most user friendly and best with drivers. Now my question. I saw that with the help of Wine one can, it seems, install Windows applications. I managed with a bit of struggling to install Wine but didn't get time to do Windows apps testing. My plans for this laptop is the following: I want to play MAME games. I still have my original Starcraft and Starcraft Broodwar cds that I would like to play again. Will this work? I am especially concerned if installing by running a setup.exe installer in Linux because obviously it doesn't have the Windows registry to modify with installing. Or am I missing something. Then I also got a original Office 2013 cd. Can I install this using Wine? I am in the IT field and have years ago played on Unix. Actually we did our programming on a Unix mainframe when I was a student. Now I am more doing Windows stuff but wanted to try something different with this project. [/QUOTE]
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