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Re: Final release [message #17032 is a reply to message #17016]

Fri, 25 July 2008 20:36

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mdelfede wrote on Fri, 25 July 2008 00:14

What about wine ? Now it does work with many commercial apps, and many games, too. Maybe not perfect, but as user base increases, it'll be more and more good.
Up to now you can still run autocad, photoshop, dreamweaver, m$office, among others... I do use it with apps I need and I'm very happy with it.
Ah, with the Vista's miracle ( Smile

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) sometimes now wine is more compatible than windows itself...

Max

Wine can serve as band-aid for transitioning, not acceptable for sustained use. If you need to run above apps for a living, and why else would you spend that much money, running them on Linux is not viable, long term. They'll never work flawlessly.
Wine could be usefull for quick ports through libwine, treating it just like any other toolkit (like running Gimp on Windows). But I don't see that happening anywhere. Not even Google bothers with Picasa - they simply ship the whole wine runtime.

PS:
I just discovered, businesses are required by German law to file income tax online, and with a piece of Windows only software. They hint to Wine for Linux users. No mention of Mac...

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		About Linux distros and incompatibilty... By: guido on Thu, 24 July 2008 21:42
		Re: Final release By: mdelfede on Thu, 24 July 2008 22:46
		Re: Final release By: Zardos on Thu, 24 July 2008 22:53
		Re: Final release By: unodgs on Thu, 24 July 2008 23:16
		Re: Final release By: unodgs on Thu, 24 July 2008 23:30
		Re: Final release By: Zardos on Thu, 24 July 2008 23:57
		Re: Final release By: mdelfede on Fri, 25 July 2008 00:14
		Re: Final release By: guido on Fri, 25 July 2008 20:36
		Re: Final release By: mdelfede on Sat, 26 July 2008 19:05
		Re: Final release By: cbpporter on Fri, 25 July 2008 17:16
		Re: Final release By: Zardos on Fri, 25 July 2008 20:35
		Re: Final release By: guido on Fri, 25 July 2008 21:04
		Re: Final release By: mdelfede on Sat, 26 July 2008 19:25
		Re: Final release By: mdelfede on Sat, 26 July 2008 21:07
		Re: Final release By: unodgs on Sat, 26 July 2008 22:54
		Re: Final release By: mdelfede on Sun, 27 July 2008 14:47
		Re: Final release By: mirek on Sun, 27 July 2008 09:01
		Re: Final release By: mdelfede on Sun, 27 July 2008 14:56
		Re: Final release By: mirek on Sun, 27 July 2008 16:48
		Re: Final release By: cbpporter on Sun, 27 July 2008 17:50
		Re: Final release By: mdelfede on Sat, 26 July 2008 19:29
		Re: Final release By: emr84 on Sun, 27 July 2008 03:43

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