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[Tom <question77202@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77202 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77202

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ok, for general help tips on migrating from Windows world to linux world
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows
And as a linux noob you might appreciate working through this following guide step by step (instead of just dipping into it as with the previous guide)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
I tend to still keep going with non-free components with this but hopefully will be able to go completely OpenSource one day and then i'll really be free ;)

Also bear in mind that many people answering questions in here are quite new to linux themselves but want to try to help others and repay the community so no-one is assuming you're not doing the work.  We may be just going quiet because of being unsure of details ourselves.  Somehow you seem to have slipped through the normal net of having quite a few people bouncing ideas around.  Here's the Wine website and their forums or documentation might be more helpful about this particular type of issue
http://appdb.winehq.org/

I would avoid using anything microsquish as much as possible, it's part
of the reason for going into linux.  I am not sure what "framework" is
about but it seems to be on the same number as ".Net"?  If you're trying
".Net" stuff then please go with "Mono" instead as everything that works
in ".Net" works in Mono but Mono brings some new tools to the table to
develop it further.  Personally i would steer well clear of all that
tho.

Getting back to trying to set Win2k as your default OS in Wine try going
up to the top taskbar and click on

Applications - Wine

and now hunt around in there for "config" or "cfg", something like that
should bring up a familiarly Windows-ish type pop-up box but many of the
tabs will give you slightly different things than Windows would give.
Somewhere in there is a tab detailing setting the default WinOS for
specific different apps and the drop-downs in there can help with
setting the global default for Wine too.  Good hunting!

Good luck and regards form
Tom :)

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