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Jeremy White on WINE Installer Challenge

Posted by timothy on from the assimilation dept.

polar_bear` writes "Last week, CodeWeavers issued a "Installer Challenge" to improve Wine "until it can run nearly every Windows program." Linux Magazine interviewed CodeWeavers Founder and CEO Jeremy White about the challenge, Wine on OS X on Intel, the Linux desktop and what is ahead for CodeWeavers. White has some pretty interesting answers."

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  1. Re:hey.. is wine usable yet? by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You'd be amazed the difference in response you'd get if you were even somewhat polite rather than hostile or mocking, especially when you present no more solid evidence than "OMFG WINE SUX0RSSS!!111111".

    I realize this is Slashdot, but perhaps consider something along the lines of "Last time I tried Wine with (program) it had some pretty serious issues in terms of speed, hardware was definitely not the issue either. Has anyone tried (program) since? I didn't spend much time fiddling with it because it isn't really a big deal to me, but it'd be cool if it worked. Do all applications suffer from such a speed hit in Wine, I've been told that they don't but haven't seen any evidence of such. Can anyone suggest an alternative to (program) if it isn't likely to work in Wine?" next time, if you really are looking for information.

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  2. Re:hey.. is wine usable yet? by Malor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It doesn't matter what everyone else's experience is. This person is trying WINE and it's not working for him. He can run both Linux and Windows successfully. He can't run WINE. Ergo, there's a problem. Hint: the problem is not with the user.

    Are you associated with WINE development? If you are, they should throw you out on your ear. You are hurting uptake of their project.