Wine,Rewind,Winex...

I've been a regular wine user for many years now, started using it mostly to avoid having to boot into windows to view Word and Powerpoint documents, back then wine needed a lot of win32 DLLs to run most apps.

Wine has come a long way since then, these days it runs a whole lot of apps without any extra DLLs

A slightly out-dated presentation on Wine I gave in April 2002 is available here.

Thanks to subscription to Cedega(formerly winex), I can play all my games on linux.