Hello.

I am on Ubuntu right now.
WINE is good for some things, not so good for others.
As far as OS wars and Windows goes, I got hold of a bunch of CPDP modems a few years back and got them to work for some federal agent friends of mine for law enforcement under Windows 98SE.
Anyhow, somehow the local cops find out and I was asked if I could,,,,,Never Again!
The MODEMs were configured to run in a 16 bit environment as a direct memory address device, windows 3.1.1 for work groups and DOS 6.2.2
Windows 98 is a 32 bit operating system but can be made to run in 16 mode, it is in how it is installed.
And the motherboard needs to support IRQ and DMA on boot.
No problem, over a dozen installs without a hitch.
The Bexar county comm guy wants one, so I give him one, along with a cheap desktop that was running Windows 98SE with it, fully configured.
Anyhow, he wants to buy a laptop, but wants the latest, complete with software load.
I explain that he needs to have a machine that can run in 16 bit mode, and will need the actual install disks and not just a restore disk.
He runs out and buys a preloaded Dell laptop and can not make this work.
He explains that I said that I could write a driver for this, and I did for the other machines.
But there was no explaining any of this to him.
He bought a computer with the express understanding that this would work.