"We are on a mission to improve Wine until it can run nearly every Windows program, and we would like your help".
As a desktop / home office user, I have been quiet on this list for some time. That is sort of a good news bad news thing from my perspective, as it means that my desktop experience with Linux is now "adequate" with my favorite distro, however, I am not diving into diminishing returns (time and effort) in any attempt to make it all just a little bit more functional, and I had not seen any great leaps lately in desktop Linux in general. By "lately" I mean in Linux time, which involves rapid changes and frequent updates, not Windows time, which means an occasional download to get a new band aid to place over the last band aid.
No major questions. It all seems rather user friendly now (I need that), certainly when compared to that boxed distro I bought a few years ago that claimed to be a complete OS replacement. Oh, and I consider that to have been a lie at that time, although these days it is fashionable to refer to such wild claims as a gentle spin.
ANYWAY, the CodeWeavers installer challenge looks promising. If it resulted in just a couple of Windows programs working for me without Windows (including a couple of games written after 1997), then I would be done with Windows!
Rick
Honestly, the only thing I care about is DirectX games that will never run on linux. Word can rot in hell, it's already a convoluted piece of popular software run amok. I didn't switch to linux to run all my windows apps on it!
Justin Dugger
On 7/20/05, Richard A. Franklin [email protected] wrote:
"We are on a mission to improve Wine until it can run nearly every Windows program, and we would like your help".
As a desktop / home office user, I have been quiet on this list for some time. That is sort of a good news bad news thing from my perspective, as it means that my desktop experience with Linux is now "adequate" with my favorite distro, however, I am not diving into diminishing returns (time and effort) in any attempt to make it all just a little bit more functional, and I had not seen any great leaps lately in desktop Linux in general. By "lately" I mean in Linux time, which involves rapid changes and frequent updates, not Windows time, which means an occasional download to get a new band aid to place over the last band aid.
No major questions. It all seems rather user friendly now (I need that), certainly when compared to that boxed distro I bought a few years ago that claimed to be a complete OS replacement. Oh, and I consider that to have been a lie at that time, although these days it is fashionable to refer to such wild claims as a gentle spin.
ANYWAY, the CodeWeavers installer challenge looks promising. If it resulted in just a couple of Windows programs working for me without Windows (including a couple of games written after 1997), then I would be done with Windows!
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