Windows GUI on Linux.

[Circlenaut]

Is it possiable?

 

[alisajid]

Screenshot of Wine, a windows compatibility layer for Linux/UNIX. Go to WineHQ for more details.

 

[CTho9305]

look for lindows. they're doing something kinda like that. nobody is sure if it is for real or not though. basically they're copying it very closely as a theme on KDE (a linux "gui"). presently, you can't wine explorer.exe (at least, last time I tried), but if you could, that would be a step to perfectly copying the GUI.

edit: wine emulates windows so you can run windows programs under linux. thats the simple version. it doesn't really emulate, but i dont feel like explaining, and its all on winehq already 😉

 

[BlvdKing]

Wow that cool. Wine is really taking off! Yesterday I bought that Mandrake 8.1 gamers edition that uses WineX and allows for quite a few Windows games to be played on Linux. I hope Wine development keeps getting better because that screenshot look fabulous.

 

[Entity]

If anyone can get Wine + United Devices (www.ud.com) working, please LMK.

Rob

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

you can get window-clone skins/themes for most window managers. out of boredom, i made one for blackbox 😛

of course i dont use it :/

 

[neuralfx]

I wouldnt want windows' GUI on linux .. i dont like the GUI , but like KDE has a built-in classic windows theme i believe, it wont look just like it, but menus and stuff will be similar .. there are gui's that look much better in my opinion, just my thoughts ..
-neural

 

[Mitzi]

<< I wouldnt want windows' GUI on linux .. i dont like the GUI , but like KDE has a built-in classic windows theme i believe, it wont look just like it, but menus and stuff will be similar .. there are gui's that look much better in my opinion, just my thoughts ..
-neural >>



I totally agree - why would you want the Windows GUI? Some of the X frontends are much better (KDE and Windowmaker spring to mind).