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PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac: use Windows programs under Linux / MacOS

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac are two free programs which allow you to fully benefit from Wine, even if you don’t have a solid technical background. These two applications, relatively simple to use, will allow you to install or run any program (office, game, graphics editor, and development tools) initially designed for Windows, from your GNU/Linux distribution or your MAC. The "PlayOnLinux or PlayOnMac" releases are essentially programs which delight gamers who don’t want to purchase a Windows license but are still able to play the latest games, without having to change their user habits.

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PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac: use Windows programs under Linux / MacOS

April 06th, 2011 - 06:10 pm ET by
  1. 1 - Introduction
  2. 2 - PlayOnLinux: Implementation and practical cases for "supported applications"
  3. 3 - PlayOnMac: Getting started and a practical application test
  4. 4 - PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac: What about unsupported applications?
  5. 5 - Conclusion

Wine at the service of PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac

PlayOnLinuxHow can you install Windows programs on Linux or MAC OS X when you have no technical knowledge? One possibility is to turn to the free and open programs PlayOnLinux or PlayOnMac. The first program is for GNU/Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Mandriva, FreeBSD, Fedora, Slackware…) while the second is for MAC OS X (version 10.6 and later).

PlayonmacThese programs are built on preconfigured scripts (lists of supported applications) and allow the user to run utilities or video games initially designed for the Windows system. You should note that you don’t even have to purchase a Microsoft Windows license. PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac exploit and open up, very easily, the potential of the Wine program (Wine Is Not an Emulator) which is in no case an emulator but a free implementation of Microsoft Windows’s programming on X and UNIX.

 

winehq-logoBenefit, without complication, from the latest Windows applications and games!

As you will have understood, if you are running Linux or MAC OS X and don’t have virtualisation options available to you (VMware, Parallels Desktop for Mac), a Windows dual boot system (Windows licence, partition or second hard drive, boot manager) or a second machine with Windows installed, then the only solution remaining for you is PlayOnLinux or PlayOnMac. You can also benefit from programs like Microsoft Office 2010, Adobe Photoshop, Internet Explorer, AutoCAD, .NET Framework 2.0… or the latest 3D games exclusively released on Windows like Crysis 2, Assassins's Creed 2, Call of Duty, Bulletstorm, and FE.A.R. 2, The Elder Scrolls IV, The Witcher, GTA IV, Need For Speed, FIFA 11, Dragon Age 2…

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