Re: Floppy and Wine problems

[Jason Greenwood]

I hear this ALL the time from people. I'm sick of the whingeing. MS DOES 
NOT WANT IT TO BE EASY for you to switch. That is why it is not, there 
is no other reason. If you want Linux to be like, act like and run like 
Windows, USE WINDOWS. If you want to run Windows apps easily, run 
Windows. It really is that simple.

End </MYRANT>

Patrick Dunford wrote:
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.