[Wine] A day of trying to get something to work

[TR]

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 at nethere.com> 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
> >
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