Then you won't have any permission problems later on. To use the emulation you start wine together with the path to the windows program. Since the introduction of a graphical frontend for this program, configuration has become much simpler. Only the traps while compiling and installing the source code disturb the user. It is still an alpha version but it is already quite useful.
Wine is good for working but playing is possible as well.
The configuration of wine is much more complicated in these cases and we do not go any deeper in here.