Re: Floppy and Wine problems

[Patrick Dunford]

Paul Wilkins wrote:


This then is the stumbling block. Unless you're willing to pay lots of 
money for WineX, you won't have much luck with games that require 
DirectX. Unfortunately, I prefer to use Windows than to hand over money.

<RANT>
I'm sadly disillusioned by a couple of distros that I've tried. It 
takes enormous effort to get some things working. The worst is when 
item X won't work and info saying "item X won't work" isn't around 
anywhere to be found.
Sometimes you can spend hours, perhaps days in an on and off fashion 
before you admit that it just won't want to work. In the end ther is a 
"it's more effort than it's worth" feeling that pervades each new 
experience. One that grows stronger with each knockdown. Perhaps I 
just don't have the right stuff. I'm saddened by it, for I was really 
looking forward to it.
</RANT>

If you want to play 3D type games then look for ones that use OpenGL. 
That at least you can get working, assuming that you have a 3D card 
and that you are using the right drivers.

I find some of the rationales for using Wine full stop suspect. If I 
want to run Windows apps, I'll buy a Windows computer.