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WineX Install Goes Sour for LinuxWorld Editor
jg21 writes "LinuxWorld's gaming industry editor apparently grappled with TransGaming's latest WineX release, now renamed Cedega 4.0, to such an extent that she "lost" half a day of her life. A trip to the Dark Age of Camelot site for a 7-day free trial ended in tears and installing Diablo II didn't go much better. Dee-Ann LeBlanc may have coedited Linux for Dummies, but she suffered more black screens than a multiplex during a power outage. Is the problem simply that she uses Fedora Core 2 - can't someone help her out?" Are these one-off problems, or symptomatic of a bigger issue?
That's a show stopping *problem* all right. I know I run into that one all the time. Yep.
Oh wait I can open a remote desktop and not have to fuck with a command line at all. Of course, you'll consider that a nifty hack because I didn't do it from a command prompt.
The difference between people like you and the people at Microsoft is that while MS knows they've got some shitty software in the pipe they put considerable effort into making the best of things.
Linux users like you, you are children sitting in a shitty diaper who refuse to be changed while insisting they are the mother fucking messiah.
The remainder of your comment is wholly irrelevant.
Well, I guess I disgaree. I used RedHat for years, then tried FC1 after desktop RedHat was discontinued. It simply didn't measure up to what I expected, and I ended up going over to Debian (the best move I ever made).
That was for my main box, but for my laptop I tried Knoppix for kicks, but found it wasn't production ready for permanent installs as much as I'd like, and I now run FC2 there. It simply isn't as mature, predictable, or stable as Debian (even testing/unstable). I'd never use it on a desktop.
That said, Cedega is a mess. It broke support for a number of games, and introduced glitches in others. Far more of a disappointment than FC2 ever was.