Sugared Wine

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Am 11.10.2008 um 16:30 schrieb Jeremy White:

> But the key point was that he immediately and *emotionally* was  
> grabbed by the value of Wine.

He grabbed _a_ value of Wine, but not the one making Wine unique,  
standing out of the crowd of countless competitive technology.  
Perhaps he even grabbed the wrong value, putting Wine on par with  
Qemu, VMware, VirtualPC, VirtualBox, and all the others.

> And Wine is fundamentally different from and better than PC  
> emulation technology.

Well, what "better" means can always be discussed. For me, emulators  
just work, running any application I throw at them. At the same time,  
Wine is making me headaches and often requires a lot of thinking.  
Also, Wine will always be somewhat behind Microsofts newest API  
creations by it's very nature.

The single most important app in my business runs flawlessly in an  
emulator since the first time I tried. Nevertheless, I've put a lot  
of efforts into getting it to run in Wine. Wine has strengths you  
can't see at a first glance.


> But the bottom line is that we're human, and our brains work in  
> funny ways.

Yes. You're teaching "If you want to use commodity apps, use Sugar.  
If you want to use more powerful apps, switch to Windows mode. If you  
want to share files between them, understand how these two work  
together."

Don't forget, young people don't have the brand recognition-like  
experience with the taskbar your John Gilmore has. Unless I miss  
something, there's no need to give it them, either.


MarKus

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