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Wine 1.7.1 Arrives With Some Minor Improvements
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Originally posted by Teho View PostThat's about as fancy as you can get... Internet Explorer simply doesn't work on Wine. Many application and games do, without any configuration no less. WineHQ is a great resource for the information on what application work and don't work. Most of the games I'm interested in work with Wine just fine.
..to quote Bono (of U2); "even better than the real thing, child"
Originally posted by scionicspectre View PostUntil the majority of Adobe CS and other creative tools are working, or we get a real step up in games compatibility, no new release of WINE is going to be 'something to get excited about'.
Originally posted by scionicspectre View PostWINE is great if you wanna' play MMOs without GameGuard, or a pretty good breadth of single player games from a year or more ago. But as a real alternative to using Windows, it's got too many holes in compatibility to really work for the majority of gamers or professionals.
* So as an alternative to Windows, Wine is not - but Wine is useful in a variety of ways: a). As a "stop-gap measure" it is extremely useful has been for many years and will continue to be -> Lightpipe (netflix in native web browser) is one example, Proaudio applications is another popular one). b). It can allow you to use the odd win app when you need too and/or to run legacy software. d) you can potentially have an app that can use both winAPIs and LinuxAPIs (winelib apps); Which there are a couple of, that i use daily... e). let's not forget that certain companies make commercial products using Wine... ie: Where Wine shines isn't "being an alternative to Windows".
Originally posted by scionicspectre View PostThat isn't to say that the WINE developers haven't done astoundingly good work against impossible odds. I used to love using WINE to get all kinds of software running on Linux. But with Steam coming around and Linux becoming a stronger platform, I'd rather advocate official channels to get apps on the platform. Not to mention it just feels nicer to have the majority of my apps using the same toolkit.
btw, You can theme Wine. - I've had very reasonable integration between Wine apps and my Gtk theme(s). It's doable, with the exception of if you are using oxygen-transparency in KDE or something (obviously your not getting RGBA backgrounds in Wine apps...lol).Last edited by ninez; 03 September 2013, 04:49 PM.
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Originally posted by 123_qwe View PostFyi http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine...er/101106.html
Some really nice performance improvements coming along
Originally posted by ninez View PostThat is exactly what i was thinking, when i read his comment. IE is one of the applications most tied to Windows, or rather close integration. Being as Wine only covers, what 75% or something and to have proper CIFS in wine, it's out-of-tree patches that are needed. (one example of missing functionality that IE probably wants)... Plus, who needs IE, when i got my trusty x64 "wine Internet Explorer"?...lol;
2. Lusers locked into shitty ActiveX crap and legacy proprietary applications.
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Originally posted by uid313 View Post1. Web developers who want to test their site in different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Explorer).
2. Lusers locked into shitty ActiveX crap and legacy proprietary applications.
people tied into ActiveX + IE prolly aren't going to use Wine in most cases, for the same reason as your imaginary web developer scenario. it's possible there may be a corner case or two, but i doubt much beyond that...
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Originally posted by ninez View PostSo i gotta ask; Does this come from your own web development experience? lol.
At work I develop on Windows.
I use Firefox to develop, if there is any problems with Internet Explorer then I tell my boss that IE sucks and we can't do anything about it.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostAt home I develop on Linux.
At work I develop on Windows.
I use Firefox to develop, if there is any problems with Internet Explorer then I tell my boss that IE sucks and we can't do anything about it.
Like i said; You would have to have a certification in stupidity to think Wine + IE would be a good / accurate way to test web content.
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