Is it actually possible? On a 99+ % M$-free box I'm talking about the sort of printer drivers that you install using the standard floppies that come with the printer, the one that delightfully instructs you to (1) Insert disk into Drive A: (2) From start, choose settings, blah. It seems that wine doesn't have its own control panel that would let you install winprinter drivers (which aren't executable, so you can't do wine <filename.exe> on it). GS obviously won't work.
As for MIDI, I'm look for the sort of software support that allows me to transparently play multimedia titles like Encarta 97 (which I have successfully installed) and who knows, an old-fashioned first-person shooter. Timidity of course won't do. As for the ppp, I'm looking to install a freemail (no dialup cost) service which expectedly comes only in a M$ variety. Obviously I need to get ppp working (after I hoepfully figure out some way of installing the software). Or maybe, just how to connect the normal DUN way, and get to browse using Explorer.