how good is wine cos im seriously thinking about finally going linux and i have lots of games i still want to play and i havent seen ports for most of them
You'll want WineX as Wine is crap for games. If you just get the free the source packages, it's fine, I've gotten it working before. My one friend actually paid the money to get the RPM packages, and they gave him endless troubles, even more than the source packages did. It's got really good docuentation, so it's easy enough to install, but some peopel have trouble getting it working, WineX seems to be a little like overclocking. It's not a science . . . . . Chi !
either way their both sketchy programs think about it, your running windows based programs on linux....i use wine for counterstrike, when it switches my display mode it changes it to a 1280x1024 physical screen, and only 1024x768, so if u hit esc and move the mouse right, you see your desktop its messed up but it works.
**** Wine!! Wine is a bunch of ****** bull-****!! I tred it and it dose bull ****, It dosen't even run! Why don't you just do a duel boot with XP, and Red Hat 9, works like a charm for me! For more info, just post a reply, and I will reply with the help.
ive managed to get enuf hardware to have a linux box now so i wont bother with dual boot or wine thanks any way
Re: **** Wine!! [RANT] wine does work if you compile it right, dont forget u need to add the dll's that the programs use under ~/.wine/config and specify them native or whatever im just clearing up the fact that wine -does- work, its just really hard to get a few programs to work...but if u read on the winehq website you'll see that theres support for almost every windows program thats out there. to answer your 'why doesnt everyone just dual-boot with winxp' well look at it this way, it takes up over a GB of more hdd space, you have to reboot your computer everytime u want to use an application, and reboot again when your done with it, and u write more information to the MBR causing both OS's to be unstable (if not immidately then somewhere down the line) wine works fine for me, kazaa, quake2, counter-strike, explorer.exe, etc. only it tends to crash every-so-often, but solved with a reload or a restart of X [/RANT]
Free?.... Bull - ****! I tryed to get WineX from the link and it sayes that I have to ***** pay $5/Mo! I'm not paying the ***** $5/Mo for this ****** bunch of bull ****!
That is for the compiled RPMs, you cna download the source for free via CVS. Although support is minimal for the source. I've used both the source and the RPMs, while the RPMs are nicer and easier to work with, both work just fine. And dude, lay off the swearing, I don't care about "foul" language but it's rather annoying reading a post that is nothing but asterisks every second word.
agreed --it is starting to get -really- old now, and annoying i, too have used both source and rpm and they both (in my opinion) work the same as the other, despite the few hassles of the source installation and the config and whatnot
i'm sure i shouldn't ask this question, but can someone point me to a copy of the source that doesn't require me to use cvs. I can't use it, because my uni block the ports it uses from our network. Also i'm having problems getting the files when loggin in from someone elses linux box. I'm not asking for the binaries, jus the source files. If anyone can help, i'd be greatful
