I have two PCs (actually, I have seven, but two I'm concerned about today...). One is 32bit running Debian Lenny i386, and the other is Intel-64-bit running Debian Lenny amd64. Both have wine installed from the standard repos, and I have tried several Windows programs on both platforms. My experience has been that the programs almost always run on the 32bit machine, but almost never run on the 64bit machine. I was wondering if everyone else had pretty much the same experience, or if it was more likely something wrong with my particular system. I'm trying to decide whether it is worth the time scouring Wine wikis and becoming a Wine guru to get the games running on my 64bit machine, or if I should just run them on the 32bit machine. Anybody else got a story about playing around with wine on 64bit? Side-note: I never actually buy Windows games, but somehow I keep getting them for Christmas. And I do have this soft spot for X-Com: UFO Defense that I can't seem to kick. =]

WINE 64 bit support is still fairly young as far as I understand it. You should be able to run 32 bit WINE packages on your 64 bit machine as long as you have the 32 bit compat libraries installed though.

7 bets my 4 runing linux.yes i get errer when trying to install

I have had no luck with MOH, COD1/2/4. Blew out wine and tried installing dx9c and setting mode on the dll's etc. - no dice. (good thing i dual boot xp for some rare gaming.) so really only WinAmp worked in wine so far but I have not tried beyond the games listed there.. (ubuntu 8.10 amd64 bit)

I use 32bit Wine on my 64bit CentOS system with decent results. I haven't tried the native 64bit version of Wine, which if it exists probably has some issues. I run my video authoring software, QuickPar, Framemaker, Photoshop, WinRar, etc. Some Windoze programs don't play well with Wine, so those I run in a VM with VirutalBox.