Yes, my ranting is immature and non-productive. Please accept my apologies. Looking at appdb, it strikes me that it is such a selective list. I've had good success with running old Win 3.1 apps under Wine, so got the idea it "just works". -TR On Tuesday 21 March 2006 11:19, Hiji wrote: > Not everything is going to work. Make sure you 1) > have the latest Wine installed and 2) review > http://appdb.winehq.org to see which apps have been > recorded as being tested. That way, you don't waste > your entire day trying to get something to work. And > don't forget to use this list as a resource for > getting help; not for one to rant in! :) :) > > Hiji > > --- TR <tmst@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well, after spending a day of working with trying to > > install an assortment of > > progams on my Wine installation for SuSe 10.0, I'm > > giving up. Every time I > > get almost to the point where I think it could be > > useful, something happens. > > The latest was a complaint at the very end of the > > extensive install for > > Brittanica encyclopedia, saying something couldn't > > be found. > > > > Why does everything have to allow you to get to the > > end before complaining? I > > think it's a ploy by Microsoft agents within the > > open source community, to > > demoralize the users so they'll either give up or > > spend more valuable hours > > of their lives futilely trying to escape the > > Microsoft net. So I say, just > > pay up, and have fun doing something less > > frustrating. And when Windows > > crashes with all your data, at least you'll have the > > satisfaction that you > > got to almost completely neglect it up to that > > point. > > > > -TR > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wine-users mailing list > > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
