Using a Windoze application

[Geoffrey Leach]

I have a Windows 10 application on a USB stick. I need to run it
occasionally on a laptop that does not have Windows, but does have
fedora 32.

I could, of course, install Windows, fiddle the partitions, then
install Fedora. Lots of work for something that would be used
occasionally. To say nothing of the annoying rebooting.

Any suggestions on a better approach would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Doug McGarrett]

On 3/1/21 11:33 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I have a Windows 10 application on a USB stick. I need to run it
> occasionally on a laptop that does not have Windows, but does have
> fedora 32.
>
> I could, of course, install Windows, fiddle the partitions, then
> install Fedora. Lots of work for something that would be used
> occasionally. To say nothing of the annoying rebooting.
>
> Any suggestions on a better approach would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> _______________________________________________

Install Wine on your Linux machine. Then the command
wine windowsapp.exe should install it and let it run
when you need it.
--doug

[Cameron Simpson]

On 01Mar2021 23:45, Doug McGarrett  wrote:
> On 3/1/21 11:33 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > I have a Windows 10 application on a USB stick. I need to run it
> > occasionally on a laptop that does not have Windows, but does have
> > fedora 32.
> >
> > I could, of course, install Windows, fiddle the partitions, then
> > install Fedora. Lots of work for something that would be used
> > occasionally. To say nothing of the annoying rebooting.
> >
> > Any suggestions on a better approach would be appreciated.
>
> Install Wine on your Linux machine. Then the command
> wine windowsapp.exe should install it and let it run
> when you need it.

And if Wine isn't sufficient, there's always making a VM.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/03/2021 12:33, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I could, of course, install Windows, fiddle the partitions, then
> install Fedora. Lots of work for something that would be used
> occasionally. To say nothing of the annoying rebooting.

One choice, as Doug has suggested, is to use Wine.

I, however, have found Wine to be lacking for my needs.  So, I went a different route.
I have a Win10 Virtual Machine running under qemu.  No rebooting needed.  Just fire-up
the VM when you need to run Win app.