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Article #881Re: I need windows, but don't want it!
From: White Spirit
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:34
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:34
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Stan Bischof wrote: > Unless you want to accept sluggish graphics, use Windows for > any Windows-based graphics-intensive apps. > No emulated environment will give you the graphics performance > of the real thing. Wine can run Windows games as well as Windows. > But if your biases are more important than performance, running > in a VM or emulated environment is likely fine for either > Mac or Linux. Of those two Corel Draw should not be an > issue- but a flight simulator will be much more noticeable. Flightgear is an open source alternative if the OP can't run his simulator of choice in wine.
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