zdnet[.]com/article/how-to-run-windows-apps-on-linux-with-wine/
Jack Wallen -- ZDNET -- wrote a how-to covering the basics of installing & using Wine, which many distros come with already installed. Not everything works, but Wine is still being developed and expanded, e.g., new code was just written to allow some Adobe apps to install/run. There's a database of apps & games that work with Wine here:
appdb.winehq[.]org/#link={