Ehh.. it didn't take a lot of time to rediscover wine after I made a huge switch to ubuntu last month. After all, there isn't any reason now to keep running windows. I've managed to run the following softwares so far: 1. Adobe Photoshop 7 2. Macromedia Flash 8 3. Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 4. Winrar 5. Flashget but there was a little problem with Picasa 2.6!... Basically I couldn't use the web upload feature... It just wasn't recognizing that I had an internet connection. Damn that sucks. After reinstalling, looking into database and all, I found the error wasn't in Picasa at all but in wine itself due to a bug in wininet library... after some trial, I found that the default wine on the ubuntu repository was slightly older wine 0.9.22 I tried updating and it worked.. the commands? 1. Getting the apt-get list $sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list 2. getting it updated $ sudo apt-get update 3. ...