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lazygamer:
So I've gotten the feeling of dislike for WineX at these forums. What can you guys tell me about it, and why is it disliked/hated?


[edit - title changed a little - Calum]

[ November 21, 2002: Message edited by: Calum: Linux Commando ]

Calum:
it's proprietary. well, it is based on a gpl thing (wine) but they chose to release some halfassed addons that are proprietary (also you need to rent them, you can't even pay a oneoff fee). Also, i gather they used an older, non GPL version of wine, so they wouldn't have to contribute their code back to the community, so basically they are making money off of other people's sweat and good intentions.

although i don't know much about it, and i have never used it, so i could be wrong!    :D  

edit - also, it helps you run windows programs which just keeps the shackles on for that bit longer. why run linux if you're still fucking using MSword? and more to the point, how will game developers realise people want their games to be released as linux natives, if people are all renting copies of wineX and buying windows copies of the games?

[ November 20, 2002: Message edited by: Calum: Linux Commando ]

slave:
I only use it to play warcraft 3, which it does very well.  Normal wine can't run it because it doesn't have all the safedisk copy protection crap in it.

lazygamer:
What's the name of that DOS emulator again? Does it work really good?

It is true about being shackled by still using your Wind0ze programs, but im a gamer, and I need my crack!    

Still, im much more willing to try and master Linux just so I can use Wine decently. It matters not if 2001-2002 games don't work good on WineX/Wine, you think I can run 2001-2002 games good on 433 mhz?   ;)  

Oh and WineX has directX support in it and Wine doesn't right? Almost everything uses DirectX, so woulden't that make Wine rather shitty?

See I've been growing complacent with Wind0ze, complancency is a danger. Reading this article on "The path Microsoft is going with Windows XP"(something named like that)" made me more inspired again.

[ November 20, 2002: Message edited by: lazygamer ]

Calum:
you are correct about directx.

re: emulating dos, it's dosemu. to install it in linux, you need to download and compile the dosemu package and the dosemu-freedos package. the actual DOS part, freedos, is available as a seperate OS (search for it on the net) but i couldn't get it to install, and it only supports fat16 filesystems!  :D

i plan to install it as an emulator in linux too, but haven't yet...

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