- Check which applications need to be moved on priority to Linux.
Really nice line of thought - I mean systematic and practcal approach. But you have missed one major point .. Wine will also execute viruses and other alwares just fine.. :-(
True. However thats where Linux shines. Even if Wine runs in admin mode, it runs within normal user domain of Linux.
Sorry for throwing a stone at your idea.. but I too have gone over the idea when I was migrating my home pc and got stuck as all the viruses also started affecting my machine.. I had folder.htt and desktop.ini in my home folder with that stupid vbscript virus!!
More the number of stones better the chance of refining the approach.
In virus / malware case the main Linux machine remains safe since wine is run in user mode. This can later be taken a step ahead by "cleaning" the wine enviro when a user quits the system. Essentially a kiosk mode.
So here is possible steps for a cafe login : 1. Create a temp home dir for the cafe user when he/she logs in with default template applications ( a la' /etc/skel ) 2. Let the user install / play / whatever and bork the home as much he/she wishes. 3. When he / she logs out clean the temp home dir. 4. Profit ?
If this needs to go even further let the linux image run under qemu, essentially sandboxing the environment. :D But by this point am more on the visions than implementations !
Back to virii, there are quite a few instances of viruses which detect and do not run under wine :)
regards, C