I can run quicken 2007 (after a fresh wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks sh winetricks fakeie6 vcrun2005 and telling winecfg not to let the window manager manage windows), but GUI updates are incredibly slow (as in, twenty seconds to draw the main screen). oprofile shows profiles like
samples % image name app name symbol name 367948 60.6432 no-vmlinux no-vmlinux (no symbols) 57404 9.4610 libc-2.5.so libc-2.5.so (no symbols) 21210 3.4957 ntdll.dll.so ntdll.dll.so wine_nt_to_unix_file_name 14774 2.4350 libwine.so.1.0 libwine.so.1.0 wine_utf8_mbstowcs 11751 1.9367 ntdll.dll.so ntdll.dll.so hash_short_file_name 10359 1.7073 ntdll.dll.so ntdll.dll.so RtlUpcaseUnicodeString 10203 1.6816 libwine.so.1.0 libwine.so.1.0 wine_utf8_wcstombs 7259 1.1964 ntdll.dll.so ntdll.dll.so RtlIsNameLegalDOS8Dot3 6746 1.1118 ntdll.dll.so ntdll.dll.so get_full_path_helper
so perhaps it's going crazy on file i/o. I haven't really looked into this yet. (I confess I was hoping to see gdiplus as the smoking gun, but it never got above about a percent.) - Dan p.s. I don't have kernel symbols because I haven't figured out how to find vmlinux on ubuntu yet, nor does ubuntu make it easy to compile one. (vmlinuz won't do, nor do I know how to uncompress it.)