WINE
"A Windows Emulator"


What is WINE?

WINE provides LINUX USERS with a WINDOWS environment. Wine can work at either a 32 BIT COMMAND PROMPT or with a Full Windows Desktop. Nearly every program that runs in a normal Windows environment runs in WINE.

...but not all of them...unfortunately.

This means Windows Users learning to love LINUX often get frustrated and give up; going back to their defective "Real" Windows environment. This is a mistake.

When running WINE you often find your Windows programs run FASTER and more reliably, plus you are 100% VIRUS FREE since the actual operating system running the show is LINUX.

Therefore, we suggest you try at least 10 - 20 programs in WINE, get to know the Windows Desktop that Wine provides and see for yourself whether or not you really need REAL Windows to enjoy the many good programs written for Windows.

Sadly, no matter how many good programs are created WINDOWS itself is an infected bit of garbage which proves that "...after more than 30 years, Microsoft is incapable of turning out a reliable product."

Stop wasting more time and money on Windows. Switch to LINUX permanently and your life is absolutely guaranteed to improve in an instant.


HOW TO USE WINE:

  1. You click the WINE ICON that comes with your LINUX.

  2. The WINE WINDOWS EMULATOR loads and the Configuration screen appears.

  3. You go to DRIVES and ADD A DRIVE like D:, E: - the same DRIVE LETTERS you used in WINDOWS.

  4. Then on the same screen, change the PATH for each new DRIVE. This is where you need to know a bit of LINUX. LINUX drives usually start with /mnt/sda1, /mnt/sdb1, /mnt/sdc1 etc.

    So to add a D: drive that points to the /mnt/sdb1 USB Flash drive, you simply type /mnt/sdb1 in the path.

    In a way, you could think of C: as /mnt/sda1 and a USB drive as /mnt/sdb1 etc. HOWEVER, depending on when things are plugged in and light up, these drive letters can MOVE ABOUT, so be careful. There is a small hard drive at the bottom of the Pocket Rocket Linux DESKTOP that you can click to see what drives are currently connected and what data is on those drives.

  5. Once you have added drives and paths, the WINE ICON you clicked will run a WINDOWS COMMAND PROMPT; usually starting on Z:. The default drives are C: and Z: C: is actually in memory - its not a real hard drive - and it has PROGRAM FILES and other folders just like a Windows C: drive.

  6. OTHER DRIVES that you added, like D:, E: etc. will also show the data you had on those drives. USUALLY the drive is a READ/WRITE device so you can get data, edit it and save it. If not, try a different USB Flash Drive or check the LOCK switch or you may need to reformat it with your LINUX USB CLONE UTILITY. If the drive is at least 1GB a fresh, bootable copy of Pocket Rocket Linux will be written to the USB Flash Drive.

    WARNING: THE CLONE UTILITY WIPES OUT ALL DATA ON THE NEW USB FLASH DRIVE. Therefore, that data should be READ and copied somewhere else before cloning a new drive.


HOW TO GET A WINDOWS DESKTOP:

The WINE CFG program also allows you to set up a Desktop background, ICONS etc. and even install new programs (if you can't do it from a command prompt). If you want more information on advanced configuration of a WINDOWS STYLE DESKTOP, you should type WINE FOR LINUX in a Google Search Box and get ready to become a WINE TECH. It is just as easy (easier) to configure WINE to behave like a full Windows Desktop than it is to configure a real Windows Desktop and the final results are more reliable. Since every WINDOWS user has their own idea about what sort of Desktop they want, we'll leave that configuration process to you and your favorite Tech.