> -----Original Message----- > From: wine-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:wine-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of atalaras > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 4:41 PM > To: wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Never had an app work in WINE ... > I have made repeated requests here for help with firefox, and > nothing. How could wine go from running Firefox perfectly to > it being completely unusable? Why would you run a windows version of firefox under wine on linux? Just run the linux version... > > Get compatability right! Focus on getting all applications to > work! Focus on compatibility first! I would slightly disagree: focus on compatibility with _apps that don't have linux versions_. Don't worry about getting the windows versions of firefox, thunderbird, etc, working. > > At the rate things are going, i dont expect wine to be > useable EVER. The 1.0 designation is complete undeserved as > this software is still a pile of crap that runs hardly > anything except a game that some kid uses correctly! They That's not my experience. I did some testing with several in-house apps we use, and only one special case version of one app didn't work properly, and we only have 4 of that version in the field. The versions that runs on our other 800 or so installations work fine. D
