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Distribution: #1 PCLinuxOS -- for laughs -> Ubuntu, Suse, Mepis
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Chance are Most stuff won't work .. particularly MS Office and applications in the office suite.
.. I have seen comments by some folks that they installed Office under wine, but I can't believe that is very reliable.
Folks who develop wine have a commercial product, codeweaver ..who's only mission is to enable "ms office" on linux and even that doesn't run the office fully.
It runs some applications well and others are very poorly supported, check their website for the list
As has been said most software doesn't work, amongst others I have tried MS autoroute and Paint Shop Pro and winzip (just to test) and all I have had working is winzip, oh and an old windows game - chips challenge
Photoshop works with wine, the last release, not sure what the newest is. I nearly had Paint Shop Pro running but it crashed when the starting help pages came up. Maybe try copying from an installed windows installation ?
Originally posted by Scorpio Maybe try copying from an installed windows installation ?
Maybe, though its not too important to me, and I'm learning The GIMP for the small things I need a image editor for. Though I will try for MS autoroute.
OK i got wine to install i had a config file and once i rebooted the config file was gone so I ran the "wineprefixcreate" command I am running fedora core 3 i found the latetst suggest pakage for it its the " wine-20041201-1fc3winehq.i686.rpm" also i cant get it to run anything other than notepad and it cannot read my cd drive .. i am just wanting to run a few ganmes with it . is it really worth all this trouble or should i find a different way around it?
i downloaded cedega from cvs it created .cvdwine and told me to get winetools which i did and then said i needed winex which i also got still no dice guuess i do need the paid version but on another note can anyone tell me how to convert a .mdf and.mds file into one iso i been googling since yesterday still have yet to find an answer that works.
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