[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"

[Paul Johnson]

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On Sunday 23 March 2008 12:05:37 am Timeout wrote:
> I am using Suse.
> I am not using debian, Ubuntu was my first experience and it did not remain
> on my disk for more than 48 hours (hardware not supported). Now that I got
> to learn about the .rpm I don't want to start with .deb.

.deb is really easy by comparison, aptitude does literally everything for you 
instead of sending you into dependency hell looking for every RPM you need to 
install the RPM you want.  RPM based distros are generally exceedingly 
difficult to upgrade thanks to the poor package management.

> I may not be what you want to hear, but my first concern is that my
> software get freed from Windows.

I'd look at finding alternatives to the software you use in Windows and use 
wine as a last resort; you'll find native versions to be less problematic 
than emulating a legacy environment like Windows.

> And if this means reformatting my disk 
> every 3 months because of my uneducated experience, i will go for it, when
> it's mean that I am not spending more than one hour a week on Windows.

I'd look at gaining actual experience instead of wasting time needlessly 
reinstalling when you have a working system.

> Many possibilities of root do not have a GUI.

Root really, really should not be using GUI programs anyway.  I can't 
recall /any/ GUI software that's been properly tested for security issues 
when run as root.

> This is what will distinguish the starters with 
> the more educated. Starters (or most of them) can not start with the shell
> as well as the Windows super user which is not clearly appearing on start.
> My book about Linux for beginner is not mentioning anything with fstack.

fstack?

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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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