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Today I am going to ask a silly like question. The question is simply this that I have two PC's one is running Ubuntu and the other windows 7. What I want to do is to completely forget about windows but I want to use all windows apps.

I know that in Ubuntu, WINE is present for running some windows apps but that is only a drop out of an ocean. So If I copy all windows dll's i.e. in Windows\system32(from my windows computer) into the wine directory of system32(the ubuntu computer). Will all windows application run?

Will I have to do something further i.e. setting the dll's using winecfg into native/local etc.

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The short answer to your question is No. All the windows applications out there are not compatible with wine. The best place to see if a particular windows application is compatible with wine is browsing/searching in WineAppDB. In addition there are certain DLLs that Wine does not support (for eg: copy protection etc.). Read Wine HowTo to get a detailed view on this topic.

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Wine is an open source Windows API implementation (which means it runs Windows apps natively under Linux Kn), you must install programs directly, not just copy the files as it emulates the registry too, however wine is no replacement for windows.

It can be very hit and miss depending on the version of wine, the version of the program you want to install and many many other factors.

Don't remove your Windows just yet, look for native alternatives to the apps you want first and if you must look at playonlinux, it is a wine front end making it easier to use and can auto-install many popular programs.

I don't think you quite know what a .dll is

DLL stands for dynamic link library and contains references to other files windows programs need to run but they are only a tiny part of it.

Wine or playonlinux are capable of downloading them there self when they need them

I would not recommend wine for every day use at all, you should read up on it first

https://www.winehq.org/

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/wine.1.html

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&sTitle=Browse%20Applications&sOrderBy=appName&bAscending=true

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