Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-11-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Hearn wrote: As for Cedega/WineX - well, they have a big lead in gaming, but I'd like to think that one day Wine will be the swiss-army knife of Windows emulation. Regular Wine does have DX support, we should work on that rather than be distracted by a pseudo-proprietary fork. thanks -mike I w

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:15:53 -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > One could just offer a script that toggles the version of Wine being > used. Click on the script, dialog box pops up "Windows programs will > now be launched using Wine[X]", and maybe some more information > regarding the suitability for

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-11-06 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 03:47:40AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > What binary is going to be invoked when the user double-clicks, if > different applications need to be run with different versions/types of > Wine? One could just offer a script that toggles the version of Wine being used. Cli

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-11-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Ryan Underwood wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:32:02PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: find that it doesn't necessarily "feel strange" or at least as strange as I might have imagined. What mostly feels strange is the complications of getting the program started in the first place (having to cd to

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-11-01 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:32:02PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > find that it doesn't necessarily "feel strange" or at least as strange > as I might have imagined. What mostly feels strange is the complications > of getting the program started in the first place (having to cd to the > applicat

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-10-31 Thread Brian Vincent
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:26:21 -0800, Jim White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you indeed Dan! If I encounter Mike Hearn yet again with his > "Darwine is Pointless" arguments I can sed 's/Wine/Darwine/ s/Linux/Mac > OS X/' in reply to him. Huh? I just went back through the archives and couldn'

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-10-31 Thread Jim White
Holly Bostick wrote: Dan Kegel wrote: I've run into people several times who dislike the fact that I advocate or even work on the Wine project, ... Dan Dan, first of all, thanks for writing that dowm. Thank you indeed Dan! If I encounter Mike Hearn yet again with his "Darwine is Pointless" argume

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-10-30 Thread Dan Kegel
Brian Vincent wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:40:38 -0700, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.kegel.com/wine/why.html These aren't exactly buried, but they're not obvious either: http://www.winehq.com/site/myths http://www.winehq.com/site/why I had a link to the 2nd one, now I've got a l

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-10-30 Thread Dan Kegel
Holly Bostick wrote: I've got Wine running, and installed several programs I was familiar with under Windows, mostly to perform tasks that I couldn't figure out how to do under Linux, but which I either knew how to perform using Windows apps, or could find HOW-TOs for that specified Windows apps

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-10-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Dan Kegel wrote: I've run into people several times who dislike the fact that I advocate or even work on the Wine project, because they feel that it takes focus away from working on the Linux desktop. I beg to differ, but I've never had a really snappy comeback for them. It happened again today, a

Re: Countering arguments against Wine

2004-10-30 Thread Brian Vincent
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:40:38 -0700, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've run into people several times who dislike the > fact that I advocate or even work on the Wine project, > because they feel that it takes focus away from > working on the Linux desktop. I beg to differ, but > I've never

Countering arguments against Wine

2004-10-30 Thread Dan Kegel
I've run into people several times who dislike the fact that I advocate or even work on the Wine project, because they feel that it takes focus away from working on the Linux desktop. I beg to differ, but I've never had a really snappy comeback for them. It happened again today, and this time it o