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- sloppychris, on 05/03/2008, -1/+88"Does ______ work yet?"
http://appdb.winehq.org/ - mysticmatrix, on 05/03/2008, -2/+73Customary comment:
Wine is not an emulator...
Days remaining for Wine 1.0rc1 are 9 only!!!
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan - Stonekeeper, on 05/03/2008, -3/+60I only boot into windows to laugh at it!
- shad0walker, on 05/03/2008, -21/+61Before people bitch about this being on Digg.
Shut up. It's here, get over and just don't read it.
I would like assume that the tiny brains you use to post comments about how much it sucks this is on Digg might be capable of NOT CLICKING the damn link. Looking back at that sentence I fear I'm a little too hopeful though. - HerbSolo, on 05/03/2008, -4/+41digg.com - the official wine-releases RSS Feed.
- waspbr, on 05/03/2008, -3/+37you sir have made a good point
- mijelh, on 05/03/2008, -1/+34so we are lucky that Wine Is Not en Emulator
- Hangly, on 05/03/2008, -0/+30Windows on the other hand can emulate everything just fine?
- Hangly, on 05/03/2008, -1/+25Oh it's there.
- whiteeagle131, on 05/03/2008, -1/+22Sims 2 can't even be played on Vista
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -4/+25What a coincidence, I'm just enjoying beer 0.65.1
- ssam, on 05/03/2008, -2/+21this is getting too close to windows
- srg13, on 05/03/2008, -0/+18For me, it's not a problem with Linux, it's a problem with Photoshop.
Wine is an interim solution. Especially because it's only one app that I use regularly, and one or two that I use occasionally. It's not worth putting up with Windows just for that. - KaiUno, on 05/03/2008, -1/+18Ugh, that's a beta build. It'll give you the runs. Not to mention a headache.
- ruskie, on 05/03/2008, -0/+17What about half life2 cod4 wow guild wars etc? (already working)
- mijelh, on 05/03/2008, -0/+171.0 is going to be released on wine's 15th birthday, we are not talking about a 3yo project.
And, what's there on a number? well, release criteria for wine 1.0 is that Photoshop CS2 tryout, Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer 97 and 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 97 and 2003 and Microsoft Excel Viewer 97 and 2003 are functional, so I think 1.0 really makes a difference. BTW this criteria was set long years ago, and the wine crew was working hard on it ever since, as some other collaborators like Google, so I really don't understand your criticism at all. - rolf, on 05/03/2008, -0/+16We'd install Linux versions or alternatives of some of those if they existed, but they don't. They won't port programs until Linux has marketshare to create demand. People won't move until there programs run on the system. The chicken or the egg problem.
- colonelxc, on 05/03/2008, -3/+19Blasphemy!
- twiztidsinz, on 05/03/2008, -1/+17They're not bugs... they're 'unintentional features'
- mooninite, on 05/03/2008, -0/+14What's wrong with it? There's just that Battle.net screen issue that's caused by Blizzard's shortcutting tricks to DirectDraw that arn't entirely documented... otherwise the game plays fine. I've played many a matches online with Wine.
- whiteeagle131, on 05/03/2008, -1/+15I don't even boot windows
- stormspire, on 05/03/2008, -1/+15Wine just keeps getting better and better. I only boot windows for one program now.
- YokoZar, on 05/03/2008, -0/+13You wait for me to upload the new version to the APT repository that arjie linked to. It takes a bit of time to rebuild everything once the new source is released.
- Borgcube, on 05/03/2008, -1/+13Dude, did you even use Windows. Like, at all?
- arjie, on 05/03/2008, -0/+12You probably need to add the winehq software repository. Ubuntu usually gets their versions later.
Instructions here: http://winehq.org/site/download-deb - mooninite, on 05/03/2008, -0/+12Gimp 2.5 has working Wacom (stable) support. Have you tried that??
Inkscape also works well. No need to use Wine. - srg13, on 05/03/2008, -0/+11Are you judging that on the amount of bugs that they fix each month? Because 1) All software has bugs, and it's a _good thing_ that they're fixed, and 2) most WINE bugs are something not working because a function has not been implemented yet - not a problem with existing code. Given the size of all the Windows APIs, they're making good progress in implementing them
- srg13, on 05/03/2008, -0/+11Was that an attempt at satire?
- srg13, on 05/03/2008, -0/+11It takes a little while for the maintainer to build it. They usually get round to doing it within a day or two, but it has taken longer in the past.
- MavRevMatt, on 05/03/2008, -1/+12digg.com = the official xkcd RSS Feed.
- ruskie, on 05/03/2008, -0/+10It's been here on my disk for quite a few years... so no. It's here and won't go away.
- blagoaw, on 05/03/2008, -0/+10The volume of fixes between releases with this project is insane lately. I'm impressed. I also wonder about how carefully they guard against regressions and what their plan is to deal with them.
- sloppychris, on 05/03/2008, -0/+10What appps did you try?
Also virtualbox seamless mode, IMO, is more trouble than it's worth. Just keep the virtual box window on one dedicated desktop (or side of the cube) and you're fine. - rageguy, on 05/03/2008, -0/+8Working here, Photoshop 7, Acer C111 tablet PC with inbuilt Wacom tablet.
- marine63, on 05/03/2008, -2/+10*hopes starcraft gets fixed by 1.0*
- Frostek, on 05/03/2008, -3/+10@ ravirdv
tl; dr - Shimatta1, on 05/03/2008, -1/+8Frankly, some of the most effective "fighters" on the Linux usability front are the open source apps that have both Windows and Linux versions. For someone using Firefox and Thunderbird for their internet needs, GIMP and Inkscape for drawing, and VLC for video playing, most of their needs will be met in exactly the same fashion under Linux as in Windows; the barrier to switching becomes that much lower for each cross-platform OSS program used.
- synystar, on 05/03/2008, -5/+12I actually got ______ to work but I lost a girlfriend in the process.
- ekravchenko, on 05/03/2008, -1/+7They said that they will not fix all of those for 1.0
- garreh, on 05/03/2008, -1/+6I boot windows, steel caps and everything!
- lopla, on 05/03/2008, -3/+8Well.. I installed this onto my Ubuntu desktop and tried to install about 6 apps and all failed. So now I am running virtualbox in seamless mode. Vbox seems to be doing the trick however when I try to minimize and of the windows that are running under windows half my screen truns black and it goes funny..
- DevilInPgh, on 05/03/2008, -0/+5Darwine for PPC is essentially dead. However, for Intel, I think it's sorta going on...
http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/03/darwine-09 ... - mooninite, on 05/03/2008, -0/+5Yeah, if you want to compile for about 30 minutes (not joking) you can build it yourself. It's a big project.
- directrix13, on 05/03/2008, -3/+8The answer is suck. Oh, shouldn't have typed that... my damn wiener kids are reading.
- Iandefor, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5"Linux aka Goat Milk"
Aw man, that was _clever_. Linux aka Goat Milk! Man, I can't come up with a retort to that. You, sir, are a veritable comic genius. My hat's off! - dirtyforker, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5With two week releases basically they don't guard against regressions at all. If you use the latest wine you are using the cutting edge. Regressions get fixed quickly, but this is partly because so many people use the very latest version and so regressions get found quickly. This is one of the reasons for having a version 1, so that wine can release a little bit more solid and tested version every now and then for those for whom not breaking anything is more important than having the latest functionality.
- sarixe, on 05/03/2008, -0/+5no 3d support...
- strabes, on 05/03/2008, -0/+5How about vendors make their products work for the OS? That or release documentation. If they don't, there's nothing we can do.
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