Crossover Office

Being fed up with VMware (because it's so slow and using half of my memory) I turned to Wine. But Wine appears to be very difficult to set up. Typical Linux. It will work but unless you spend a whole week you don't get it working. That's where the Corssover Office application comes in. It's just a bunch of helper applications to make setting up wine easy. That is with certain Windows applications and most Windows applications are not supported.

I have been using several trial versions (2.0.1 and 2.0.2) of Crossover Office. Actually it doesn't do really much. Admittedly, it really has some handy functions: "Reset Crossover Office" to terminate any stuck wine applications and "Simulate Windows Reboot". These are actually scripts (located in /opt/cxoffice/bin), that could be largely replaced by own solutions.