Linux Mint: Wine

Wine it is a program that can open some programs in Linux that originally are made for Windows. That's very useful! Sometimes the Linux user's use another similar programs specifically made for Linux, and they work well. However it is possible that we have to work with a Windows program (for example, the professor in the university have explained only that program because it is what he knows or it is generally used, or our boss or company works with these particular program).

With Wine you will be able to use some Windows programs in your operating system Linux. You will find Wine in Linux Mint Software Manager.

To clarify the use of Wine, I'm going to talk you about programs to subtitle, specially about two examples. In Windows we have Subtitle Workshop, and in Linux Gnome Subtitles. Thanks to Wine, I can work with the first one, that originally is made for Windows. As you can see at the bottom of the picture, the icon of the program is Wine's icon. 

And of course I can open the second one, which is made for Linux.