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- ThantiK, on 07/04/2009, -3/+43To those complaining about Wine hitting the front page. We have to see 10x as many iPhone/Windows articles as you guys have to put up with Wine articles. Get over yourself. Digg users all have different tastes.
Where are your posts in the iPhone/Win7articles about how many of them you see? - looking at your user history shows no such thing...strange. - bigdnl, on 07/03/2009, -4/+35always useful for linux/windows users.
- ruskicommi, on 07/04/2009, -2/+29"14555 Tool-tip glitch in The Curse of Monkey Island" Finally
- 1masterace, on 07/03/2009, -3/+25As wine gets better and better the usefulness of Windows decreases, and any youtube viewer can see that wine is already capable of running hardcore apps/games.
- ism70605, on 07/04/2009, -2/+16and OS X users.
- PCBEEF, on 07/04/2009, -1/+15Do we need a post for every xkcd comic? Similar concept. Why does it concern you that there's a new post for every wine release anyway? If you expect only major improvements to be posted then you'll be waiting for couple of years (since wine 1.0 took like 15 years to get released).
- 2matrix, on 07/04/2009, -4/+14What blows my mind is how some Microsoft games run faster and better under Wine then they do under native Windows - isn't that a bit ironic ? Even linux folks can write a better version of Microsoft's own API, and they don't have Microsoft's billion dollar budget on hand to do it (ROFLOL)
- Smegzor, on 07/04/2009, -1/+11Yay! Steam works again :D
- clickwir, on 07/04/2009, -0/+9I wish we could revert the types of stories that made the front page, to a time when tech ruled digg and digg was awesome for it.
- ba5e, on 07/04/2009, -0/+8It has more overhead in general; especially visible in DirectX titles, but performance in OpenGL is almost on par with windows native drivers, at least with the nvidia card I have.
- srg13, on 07/04/2009, -1/+9Should be fairly similar. The quality of your graphics driver would probably make more of a difference.
- jpjandrade, on 07/04/2009, -1/+9To be fair, as a Linux user, I disagree. Games are still not playable under linux + wine. Maybe someday they will, but today, I must still dual boot if I don't want to risk random crashes / poor performance.
That said, Zuma runs great on wine! - Smegzor, on 07/04/2009, -1/+9Caps off to that man.
- Gudeldar, on 07/04/2009, -0/+7I'll never understand why people come into the comments section just to make a post bitching about something getting to the front page (xkcd, Wine, etc). Just hit the conveniently located bury button and move on to the next post.
- allaun, on 07/04/2009, -1/+8I love this bug. 13706 Mankind encounters a page fault on startup. XD I mean, PERFECT right?
- srg13, on 07/04/2009, -1/+8The thing about bugs like that is that it means part of Wine isn't matching the behaviour of Windows, so it's likley causing problems in other applications...
- srg13, on 07/04/2009, -0/+6When did it break for you? It's been working fine for me...
- mazza558, on 07/04/2009, -1/+7Wine stories always reach the front page as a legacy from when Digg used to be tech-only. It's just one of those things that have carried on, even as the site diversified.
- iPwnN00bs, on 07/04/2009, -2/+8Your a troll you ***** tard just STFU.
- graduisic, on 07/04/2009, -0/+5wine doesn't use the same applications as windows. it mimics them. and linux can run these mimicked programs much better than windows can.
- NodOfficer, on 07/04/2009, -0/+5This is the best Wine yet!
- Smegzor, on 07/04/2009, -0/+5There is a bug where it dies at 27% doing a Steam update. The bug is still there, I just wasn't successful at fixing it until this update.
- dragossh, on 07/04/2009, -0/+5Don't forget to include the marketshare of other Unixes out there.
- vsujohn2, on 07/04/2009, -5/+10Well its mainly by the same guy, poweruser ltgenpanda, so regardless of its usefulness it will make it to the front page
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ALL of these were made popular and they only go back to the 1.1.10 release. - ruskie, on 07/05/2009, -1/+5you care enough to comment, pfft.
- Gudeldar, on 07/04/2009, -1/+5I digg them out of spite to all the people who say "Do we really need a post for every release".
- Moralogic, on 07/04/2009, -2/+6Yes, every Wine release needs to be advertised on digg by coming to the front page. It teaches people new to Digg, and repeated pops up to people who ignore it, that Wine is actually a Windows alternative that is free. Also that it is likely that there will be a version of this for Mac one day makes Linux the ultimate OS.
- MattBD, on 07/04/2009, -1/+4One of these days I hope Wine will support the Sims games and my copy of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - but I suspect I'll be waiting a long time. Still, Homeworld 2 seems to work really well, and I've gotten the original Homeworld working in Wine too, albeit a little shakily.
- MattBD, on 07/04/2009, -1/+4Apparently it can do, but according to the Wine website Linux has better memory management than Windows, so it tends to balance out. Some games will be better, others may be significantly worse.
- DontThinkSo, on 07/04/2009, -1/+4Warcraft III runs far faster on the same computer under linux than under Windows Vista (run it with -opengl), but Starcraft lags (just barely) on linux.
To give you an idea of how unpredictable it is. ;) - jamesmcginnis, on 07/04/2009, -1/+4Maybe you have been dreaming!
- iPwnN00bs, on 07/04/2009, -0/+3Really? Could you post a couple more links? That heated up my ball bearing on my Longitech mouse. Why don't you triple space next time you spam and really piss of Digg.
- alexforcefive, on 07/04/2009, -0/+2don't you just run it with nice -n 19?
- Smegzor, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2I'd be surprised if they haven't run perfectly for ages. A friend has all of those (she's hot so she's allowed).
I'll borrow one and see if I can get to work. I get ***** loads working in Wine (Even Crysis).
I will let you know how it goes. - Heretushi, on 07/04/2009, -4/+6The only thing you can do about it is to bury the story and hope that many other people think alike. This is a community driven site, and the community does not agree with your tastes.
- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -0/+2LinuxPwns is not completely out of line. Flash on linux hasn't exactly been a strong point. My jaunty system doesn't exactly excel with firefox + flash at any given moment. Mind you flash isn't doesn't kick ass on windows either. It's just that Adobe hasn't treated linux very well.
- int19h, on 07/04/2009, -0/+2ScummVM?
- DontThinkSo, on 07/04/2009, -1/+3Depends on the game. I've never had Warcraft III or Civ IV: Warlords crash on me in wine, and they both run better than on the Vista partition I have installed.
- srg13, on 07/05/2009, -1/+3You can't say that about all games - because it's not true for a lot o them. I've almost completely finished Half-Life 2 at 1680x1050 resolution - it gets great performance...
Apparently Wow plays at speeds close to or sometimes better than Windows as well. - Corrosionx, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2Anyone's been able to play Ghostbusters on it yet?
- iPwnN00bs, on 07/04/2009, -1/+3Not a bad site though for spam
- Smegzor, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2Very true. Gary's Mod is a prime example. My server way out performs Windows servers.
- valkyries, on 07/04/2009, -1/+3does linux+wine have less of a over head than just using windows for games designed for windows?
- clickwir, on 07/04/2009, -2/+4no fallout 3 love. :-(
One of the 2 reasons I keep windows on dual boot. - ruskicommi, on 07/04/2009, -1/+2it was a joke buddy
- h0dges, on 07/04/2009, -2/+3you are not binky.
- peestandingup, on 07/05/2009, -2/+3You mean a Linux user who stretches the truth about the ease of use & relevance of their OS?? Nooooooo. :-/
- octopusconsumer, on 07/04/2009, -1/+2I LOL'd when you said faggotry. And then I realized that youre an idiot and I stopped reading your post.
- ruskie, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2You use windows to run wine? Pretty crappy choice, to say it relatively gently.
- FKnight, on 07/05/2009, -4/+5If this has to get on Digg every month, then I'm going to make this comment every month:
Looking at the list of fixed bugs in the latest version of Wine proves beyond a doubt that everyone here who has been saying their games "work just fine under Wine" is a ***** liar. -
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