On 06/26/2013 09:27 PM, Jo Shields wrote:
You bought a game marked as "garbage" for Wine support in the Wine application database[0] without testing it? Sorry, but that's not my problem. If you want your games to work great in Linux, try buying games for Linux[1] If you want to run Windows games on a non-Windows OS, try games with a decent rating in the AppDB[2] Running games on the "wrong" OS isn't easy, and comes with no guarantees. It's amazing that any of them work at all.
That game runs on Windows perfectly and that is what regular users care about: Runs the game on Wine+Linux, okay, why not giving it a try. But if doesn't or some people blocking/ignoring their support/help requests, then they are scared away and go back to the original Windows. There their game is _working_, no matter if it has a garbage rating in appdb.
And that is what many Linux (nerds, sorry for the word) needs to get straight: Regular users don't _care_ about Linux if it is not possible to run their apps/games or at least a good replacement. And in case of SimCity Societies, there is no replacement. LinCity-NG? Forget about it.
Try to find a replacement for e.g. of the Battlefield games... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
