My review of Crossover

CodeWeavers makes a product called Crossover for both Mac and Linux. The idea is to be able to use Windows applications on those two operating systems. They also have a trial version, so you can try before you buy.

Crossover is built using the source code for the open-source product WINE. WINE is designed to allow Windows applications to run on Linux.

I have tested the trial version of Crossover, and I can sum it up in just one word: horrible.

Unless you want to run one of the applications on the pre-approved list of applications, good luck trying to get it to work. Every single Windows application I tried to run using Crossover, failed miserably. I had more success using WINE than I did Crossover.

If there are Windows application that you really need to run, and you can't find a Linux/Mac substitute. I recommend dual-booting your computer so it can run Windows and Linux (or Windows and Mac). Then just boot into the Windows partition when you want to use the Windows-only application.

If you want to be able to run both operating systems at the same time, I suggest using a virtual machine. One good application for this is VirtualBox

VirtualBox was originally maintained by the German company, innotek. Now it is maintained by Sun Microsystems.