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What's the best way to use Wine on OS X?

brymaster 13y ago
http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com http://www.playonmac.com http://www.playonmac.com http://winebottler.kronenberg.org http://winebottler.kronenberg.org
- barbs 13y ago
  +1 for wineskin. Works great for me.
csense 13y ago
Reformat your hard drive and install Linux Mint.
- film42 13y ago
  That's really not necessary to say.
- DigitalJack 13y ago
  I haven't tried mint, but Ubuntu is a crap experience on my mac. I had it on a separate partition for a while, but I just couldn't stand all the graphical glitching. I work in linux all day long, but i love osx. I have never, ever, thought to myself, "man, I wish I was running linux." To be fair, while at work, I never think "I wish this was osx" either.
  - Mikeb85 13y ago
    Try openSUSE. It's compatible with even more hardware than Ubuntu, and apparently runs on Apple hardware better than Ubuntu.
  - thejosh 13y ago
    I use Ubuntu 13.04 on my work iMac (mid 2011, as I recall, i7 / 16GB RAM) as my OS, with LXDE. Previous to 13.04 Ubuntu acted very strange and had a multitude of problems. Since 13.04, and with ATI finally having proper drivers it works really well.
    - nirvdrum 13y ago
      Does that have the broken EFI implementation? I only tried to boot linux on a MacBook Pro (17" unibody, 2011 I think) and while it worked, it was pretty annoying. Since the EFI implementation was non-standard, I had to boot with some BIOS emulation layer that started my SSD in IDE mode (slower), prevented proper sleep (forced to do a full shutdown whenever moving locations), and reduced battery life from 6.5 hours to about 2. If all that's a thing of the past, that'd be excellent news.
qiemem 13y ago
Homebrew is the best way I've found, but it's on 1.4 at the moment.
demallien 13y ago
Buy crossover for Mac from Codeweavers. Codeweavers do a lot of the heavy lifting in Wine, so it's good to support them, plus the UI integration is excellent. For my personal use, crossover is good enough that I no longer install a windows vm for my occasional windows app usage.
stephen_g 13y ago
I use WineBottler - it's quite nice. They have a 1.6 series build but it's one of the release candidates currently - should be updated fairly soon.

http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com http://www.playonmac.com http://www.playonmac.com http://winebottler.kronenberg.org http://winebottler.kronenberg.org

barbs 13y ago
+1 for wineskin. Works great for me.

csense 13y ago

Reformat your hard drive and install Linux Mint.

film42 13y ago
That's really not necessary to say.
DigitalJack 13y ago
I haven't tried mint, but Ubuntu is a crap experience on my mac. I had it on a separate partition for a while, but I just couldn't stand all the graphical glitching. I work in linux all day long, but i love osx. I have never, ever, thought to myself, "man, I wish I was running linux." To be fair, while at work, I never think "I wish this was osx" either.
- Mikeb85 13y ago
  Try openSUSE. It's compatible with even more hardware than Ubuntu, and apparently runs on Apple hardware better than Ubuntu.
- thejosh 13y ago
  I use Ubuntu 13.04 on my work iMac (mid 2011, as I recall, i7 / 16GB RAM) as my OS, with LXDE. Previous to 13.04 Ubuntu acted very strange and had a multitude of problems. Since 13.04, and with ATI finally having proper drivers it works really well.
  - nirvdrum 13y ago
    Does that have the broken EFI implementation? I only tried to boot linux on a MacBook Pro (17" unibody, 2011 I think) and while it worked, it was pretty annoying. Since the EFI implementation was non-standard, I had to boot with some BIOS emulation layer that started my SSD in IDE mode (slower), prevented proper sleep (forced to do a full shutdown whenever moving locations), and reduced battery life from 6.5 hours to about 2. If all that's a thing of the past, that'd be excellent news.

qiemem 13y ago

Homebrew is the best way I've found, but it's on 1.4 at the moment.

demallien 13y ago

Buy crossover for Mac from Codeweavers. Codeweavers do a lot of the heavy lifting in Wine, so it's good to support them, plus the UI integration is excellent. For my personal use, crossover is good enough that I no longer install a windows vm for my occasional windows app usage.

stephen_g 13y ago

I use WineBottler - it's quite nice. They have a 1.6 series build but it's one of the release candidates currently - should be updated fairly soon.