Moved to Linux... Still want your regular Apps?

So you have moved away from Microsoft Windows XP or VISTA to something better? A linux distro like Ubuntu?

Now that you are more secure, have less headaches and have found tons of free software using apt or synaptic, you would like to run your regular and favorite applications like Photoshop... but how?

The answer is simple: get a glass of "Wine"!

add the following line to your sources.lst
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt binary/
then run to update the package cache:
$ sudo apt-get update

Now you can install Wine with the command:
$ sudo apt-get install wine

To configure Wine, run:
$ winecfg

Mount your drives and add the letters of your choice.

One last important thing, to extract cab files and avoid other known issues, run the following command prior to installing your first application:
$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts cabextract

To run setup, simply precede run:
$ wine "/media/cdrom0/My Windoze Application/Setup.exe"

Though this is for Ubuntu, Wine is available for most linux distros.