Wine is a godsend for the still very lackluster linux desktop experience.<p>I just started listening to music locally rather than relying on streaming music again.<p>I used to do curate my music on Windows with MP3Tag, which lets you import data from 3rd party services, has an amazingly fast and efficient UI, and lets you quickly batch rename files based on their tags. I looked at all the Linux alternatives and none of them even come close.<p>I used to use foobar2000 to listen to music. Again, on Linux, nothing comes close.<p>Both worked out of the box at native speed on wine. Hats off to the devs.
The conformance test page[0] is always a good one to play with if you're interested in what parts of Wine are working well.<p>[0] <a href="http://test.winehq.org/data/" rel="nofollow">http://test.winehq.org/data/</a>
wine + mingw cross compiler = native Windows apps development on Linux.<p>I still couldn't find how to do the reverse without VM....<p><i>update</i>
Just found coLinux. seems to be stagnant, though.