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WineX Install Goes Sour for LinuxWorld Editor

Posted by simoniker on from the crying-all-the-way-home dept.

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?

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  1. For an alternate view... by Afromelonhead · · Score: 5, Informative
    Check out Joe Drago's impressions at OSNews. His story revolves around City of Heroes and an older game, namely Grim Fandango. His review is pretty much all positive. Here's an excerpt for those who don't bother to RTFA:
    If you are a Linux user that is tired of rebooting for those Windows games, this is definitely for you, but you can't be afraid to help coax Cedega into playing your favorite games just right. I think that it's going to get better with each release.
    --
    Procrastination sucks.
  2. My experience by dhess · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A few days ago I did the following:

    1. Installed Debian i386 unstable in a chroot on my Debian amd64 unstable machine.
    2. Installed Cedega in the chroot.
    3. Installed the Nvidia 6106 x86-64 drivers and copied the 32-bit OpenGL libs to the i386 chroot.
    4. Installed Battlefield 1942, including the Desert Combat and Forgotten Hope mods, using Cedega in the chroot.

    It plays great on my Quadro FX 4000, not just vanilla BF1942, but also DC and FH -- pretty impressive considering it's running a 32-bit Windows binary using 32-bit OpenGL drivers using a 64-bit Nvidia driver on a 64-bit kernel. Kudos to Transgaming, Nvidia, and the Debian project.

    I'd much rather see a native port of BF1942 to GNU/Linux, though.

  3. Bias Against Female Techies by r_benchley · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is a such a huge bias against female techies. She reports that she had difficulties getting a couple of games to work, and the male chauvinists shoot their mouths off. She might not be the most knowledgeble Linux user in the world, but she's written several books, many articles, and taught some Linux courses. If she was a dumbass, she would be out of a job. There are far too many skilled Linux users out there fo LinuxWorld to waste time with someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. Shit like this happened when Eugenia from OSNews.com wrote an unfavorable review of Fedora Core 1. Any time a complaint was made about the way something was implemented and the little boys jump in, denigrating the female as being stupid and not knowing what she was doing. You would hope that you wouldn't see this kind of immaturity in techies, considering that the majority of them are intelligent and well educated, but it persists even today.