HowTo: Win4Lin

Reading the article about the Win4Lin emulator, I was surprised by the suggestion that there was little software for Linux. I find a lot of SERIOUS software is in Linux form.
I have been happily using SUN's StarOffice 5.2 for wordprocessing etc. It converts nicely to Micro$oft formats if necessary (not so the other way round). I even installed the Windows version to work with when I visit Windows (yes, for games). But everything else I do mostly in Linux (when at home): mailing, browsing, programming, writing, burning CD's. OK, I am somewhat of a nerd, having a seperate computer with SCSI-disks in a software-raid1 as file- and printserver, accessable to the other computers and Windows via Samba.
And have you ever found a affordable Neural Network Simulator for windows???
And nowadays even installation is much easier than a windows setup (e.g. you don't have to reboot after each installed driver).
So, except for games I don't need Windows. And simple windows-programs can be run by the free wine-emulator, which is progressing. Corel used wine to port WordPerfect 8 to Linux. Nowadays several games are ported also (by Loki).
By the way: from Linux the Windows-partition can be reached without problems.
So I don't see the problem ...

Haiko Jessurun

(SuSE 7.3 / kernel 2.5.0 / AMD 1.4 /128 DDR)