PlayOnLinux is just a (good) GUI frontend for wine. Codeweavers actively develops extra features on wine, and contribute their changes back to wine. So in effect, PlayOnLinux is benefitting from Codeweavers work on Crossover.
Another advantages of Crossover are: 1) Bottles. All apps can be isolated from each other in a totally separate "bottle". Stops cross-program corruption of your wine folder. (Of course you can do this manually but...) 2) Crossties. For supported apps, Crossover has what they call a "crosstie", which is a configuration file containing a list of all the required apps/libraries that will get, e.g. Office, running. Things like the right version of MSXML, dotNet Framework, etc. These libraries are downloaded and installed in the correct order before your app is installed. Again, you can do all this yourself, but... 3) Backporting. Paying $40 for a lifetime license is not much considering Codeweavers actually hire WINE developers and contribute a lot to the WINE projects. They're the largest group of WINE developers by far. Things like DirectX support, Installshield, dotNet, etc, wouldn't work without them. P. -- Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit. On 17 May 2012 12:56, Hari Kurup <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter, just for kicks, how does Crossover XI compare with the FREELY > available PlayOnLinux? > > http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ > > I installed it recently to get MS Office working on Linux Mint and I am > in bliss! > > -- > Hari > > > Message: 11 > Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:36:29 +0300 > From: "Peter C. Ndikuwera" <[email protected]> > To: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LUG] SoftWare Inquiry > Message-ID: > <cakgsryeqyky1iyme3tohadzpmyzsowpgp35uwziqwo7qczo...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > For those interested, there's a 1-day sale today only of CrossOver XI at > only $16. > > Peter > >
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