I’m currently moving the Resonance computers over to Ubuntu. We have a variety of elderly P.Cs and this is throwing up a fair amount of annoying but not insurmountable problems.
Today it’s the turn of Wine. Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux (as quoted in the Add/Remove dialog). I’m only really installing it for one application, the excellent Mp3directcut (I’ve yet to find a similar replacement for GNU/Linux)
The problem I’m having is that Wine’s fonts are completely garbled even in the native program itself! Fortunately the very active Ubuntu forums have an anwser:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6530843
A longer discussion of the problem can be found on Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/300476
