How to install programs for Windows on Linux: Statistica, SPSS, Mathcad?

Question

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I decided to demolish Windows on my home machine a long time ago, but sometimes Statistica, SPSS, Mathcad are needed for work; because of this I cling. Help, please, to solve the problem with how to transfer it to Linux. Can you recommend a distribution kit where it is possible to implement. About analogues in the course, these programs are needed. If you are absolutely sure that installing windows programs on Linux is unrealistic, please write this.
Thanks for the good advice!
PS Recommend a bugless version, not something similar 14.04 Ubuntu

Answer 1

Use Wine, it should most likely help. You can install PlayOnLinux if your application is there - all the necessary dependencies will be installed automatically, and there will also be prefixes.
Read about Wine, see if your application is in winehq.org, they usually write there whether it works or not, what dances with a tambourine to dance if they are suddenly needed.
The distribution does not matter much, but since Ubuntu is well polished and it is most likely to find a ready-made solution for it, I recommend that you switch to any other Ubuntu-based without any problems at all (Mint, Elementary, etc), a shell on Ubuntu without changing the distribution is also possible put any.

Answer 2

Oracle Virtualbox. It will work accurately and without glitches.
You can, of course, play with Wine, but only the simplest programs worked without problems for me in it.
> Advise the bezbug version, but not something like 14.04 Ubuntu
The rest need to be finished even more. Ubuntu 14.04 is the best choice. The next stable version of Ubuntu will be in April 2016.
I came to the conclusion that in its current form, only two operating systems are suitable for the desktop: Windows and OS X. Linux is for mobile phones and servers.