I tried using wine some time ago. I was skeptical on the whole concept. I used my Windows-installed working Poser installation as a basis and just tried to get it starting in Linux using wine. Fat chance ... it would simple have required too much work to get wine to accept Poser. I gave up. I'm currently using w2kpro ... and the only reason why I haven't switched to using Linux is ... tadaa ... Poser. Being a programmer I might be of some use, but I'm too skeptical and thus probably only a negative influence to such and endeavor. Getting the damn thing working would be most challenging part ... I mean getting Python installed and Poser using scripts would be a really minor thingie after that.