wine questions

[Fred]

Hello,

I need to buy an expensive logic device programmer that connects to a PC 
through USB.  Unfortunately, the user software that make it go only runs 
on Bill Gates' cancerous, virus-infested, scourge of the Earth excuse 
for an OS which I do not use.  Is it likely to work ok using wine?  What 
type of programs do not work well with wine?  There is a supported, 
commercial version of wine that runs on Linux.  Would I be better off 
buying that and running it on the FBSD Linux emulation?

Best regards,
Fred