Wine gets better, but not perfect, with age

I agree. Just two weeks ago, as a student I've been asked to deliver exercises as windows executables. I installed mingw cross-compiler to do that, and then Wine to check that those executables run ok. I didn't need to do anything to configure Wine. Although I would like to play with virtualization, I don't have enough time to deal with it currently, but then only to try other Linux distros, not to have to deal with Windows...