Wine Wine Wine
This is just a curiosity post. I keep hearing about wine and understand what it is supposed to do. I dont think I would use it because I have windows vista and xp on the same machine and much of the purpose of going to ubuntu is kind of a screw you windows .. bah bye. So the only program that I would be missing that I would need to switch over for would be my modeling program (vectorworks) and from my initial exploration Wings might replace that and do the job better. But I have to know. It has to slow the machine down like crazy no? I did some scripts back in the day for an existing pc emulator in teh late 80's and it wasn't really worth having it on the machine because the PC side ran so slow.
I could ask at the wine forums but to often you get only fan boys on specific forums so I thought I would ask here. What gives .. what is it and how slow does it kill your computer? Alex |
Well if you already understand what it's supposed to do, what else are we supposed to tell you? It's generally never anything like as good as you hope it would be, that's one thing I guess. Generally I'd suggest running a real windows VM instead of Wine, so much simpler and reliable.
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in general i dislike it
BUT if you have only one or two programs ( that work fine in wine) use wine an example on my moms computer ( suse) i have wine installed for ONE 1 xp windows ( paid for $30) game there is no use in dual booting her box for 1 game i do some software testing so i run Suse,Arch, Cent, and win7 so there is no need for wine. But to give you an idea i think in the last 60 day i have logged 3 to 4 hours total on win 7 if my copy of 7 was not " at no cost" it would not be there . |
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