Re: I need windows, but don't want it!

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From: John Taylor
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:28

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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:25:46 +0000, Alan Braggins wrote:
> 
> (And it can run _some_ Windows games as well as Windows. Quite a lot,
> but not so many the OP should assume the one he cares about works
> without checking first. The Microsoft Flight Simulator page, for example
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=278
> isn't very promising. CorelDraw looks a better, but depends on version:
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=440)

You can't really go by those pages.
It does very much depend on the versions of the software you are trying 
to run and the version of wine.

I have had very good results with apps that didn't look good on the list.
Dreamweaver for example works really well for me.

Best way is to just try it out.

The other thing is that people often publish complicated hacks to make an 
app work with wine. In all the cases that I've tried (not many) the hacks 
didn't work, but just installing as you would on windows did.

JohnT

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