another, somewhat exotic, VM approach. But just as with Wine, I doubt the program will work as well as it did under Windows on bare metal, let alone work better. Much more dependable than Wine, but if you get Wine to work, Wine is likely to be faster. Running a Windows program in a VM running Windows will almost allways work, unless the machine just doesn't have sufficient resources.
But I doubt it will work as well as it did under Windows, let alone work better. If you spend enough time at it, especially if you use a search engine like to read about what other people have done to get a program to run under Wine, and fiddle with a lot, trying different things, a lot of programs that don't run off the bat can be made to work. It's got a bunch of settings that can be tailored differently for each application you want to run under it. Just because it doesn't work the first go round doesn't mean it can't be made to work. I'm not sure that's true if you use other installation methods. There are more links on that page if you want to pursue that angle, but my understanding is that all that stuff is SUPPOSED to be automatic now if you use apt-get or a GUI front end for apt-get to install a program. Code: sudo apt-get install ia32-libsstill gets the same error message it did when the post beginning 'According to the error message that I got.
