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There are a lot of questions about how well specific applications run in Wine:

It seems like the only valid answer to each of these questions is a link to the appropriate page on the Wine Application Database. Because of this, I am wondering if these questions really belong here.

What does everyone else think?

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Maybe this is a good example of something that should be a canonical question?

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/the-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions/

Help us build a great library of canonical answers. If you keep seeing the same form of questions, whether it’s mod_rewrite rules on Server Fault, freezing computers on Super User, or how to use regular expressions to parse HTML, write a great, canonical answer, once and for all. Make it community wiki so that as many other people as possible can make it great. Work really hard on writing something that is clear, concise, and understandable by as wide an audience as possible.

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  • That sounds like a good idea. I'll wait to see what other community members think of the idea and perhaps discuss its creation.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Aug 5, 2011 at 4:33
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    The issue is that this one is every application is a little different (and has different dependencies, requires a different version of WINE etc), so that it'd be pretty difficult to write "One Answer For All". But I think the Ask Ubuntu community is up to the challenge.
    – jrg
    Commented Aug 5, 2011 at 12:10
  • @James: Well the problem is that any application-specific information is basically just duplicating content from the Wine AppDB and then we'd need to make sure it was always kept in sync.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Aug 5, 2011 at 17:55
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    @GeorgeEdison Very true. That case, I suggest that we follow Jeff's advice. My two cents.
    – jrg
    Commented Aug 5, 2011 at 17:56
  • Often times (in recent versions of WINE) it boils down to configuration changes and dll installations. So it might be best to have a one stop shop for most applications and other questions for fringe cases. Overall we should advise moving to native applications where ever possible.
    – RolandiXor
    Commented Aug 5, 2011 at 21:17
  • I've attempted to start the ball rolling on a canonical question.
    – Jjed
    Commented Dec 3, 2011 at 18:22
  • If we had a reasonably short list (say 100) of big canonical QA, a tool to flag a question to point there with only a couple of clicks would be great. For example, a blog page with links to all the canonical QA "ready". I often find that the search of the site is quite lousy (site:askubuntu.com on google is much better).
    – Rmano
    Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 19:26
  • And BTW, askubuntu.com/questions/162075/… is probably the mother of all canonical questions...
    – Rmano
    Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 19:27

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