Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

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To: debuser <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 12:49:41 -0600

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 10:22, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> Christian Schnobrich wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:52, David Millet wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>
> >>Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that
> >>everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon.
> >
> >
> > Nooooo!
> > please.
>
>
> Here's my take. I like to play games. I have lots of games. As you are
> probably well aware, there's not many commercial games for Linux. So I
> keep a copy of Windows XP on my computer so I can play them.
>
> If Wine could play all my games like they play in Windows, I could get
> rid of my Windows partition completely, and be all the happier with
> Linux as my main OS.
>
> And yes, I know about WineX. But it's not there yet, and I don't have
> the funds to spend $5/month for something I may not use very often.

I am a huge gamer and I do the same thing. HOWEVER, recalling my first
experiences with Linux from about 2 years ago, I've found that having
that crutch keeps you from looking for better alternatives.

I had used Agent as my newsreader for years in Windows, and when I
started using Linux the first thing that I did was install Wine and
Agent. Luckily, I stumbled upon Pan later and have been quite happy with
it since.

I was also on the verge of installing (or trying to at least) ICQ, AIM,
and friends under Wine so I could get in touch with people. Once again,
I got lucky and ran across Gaim.

And lets not forget that most people who decide to try Linux nowadays
are generally doing so to get away from the instability of Windows. But
ever since W2K, it's generally been the applications, NOT the OS, that's
been crashing left and right. (At least in my experience.) Running a
buggy app under Wine won't make it crash any less. It may well make it
crash MORE.

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