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

[Paul Johnson]

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On Sunday 23 March 2008 11:23:09 am Timeout wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Open Source? Please! Tell graphic people to use Gimp instead of Photoshop.

That wrongly assumes that The Gimp is trying to be a photoshop replacement to 
begin with.  The Gimp is closer to Photoshop Elements or Paintshop in terms 
of what it's going for.  That being said, the vast majority of people who 
claim to need photoshop don't use it for anything that the Gimp couldn't 
handle.  Industry experience and the law of averages strongly suggest that if 
you do need Photoshop instead of Gimp, you won't be here anyway because MacOS 
already has a native Photoshop...

> Because clients don't want to send their text as txt. They want to send it
> in the format they had been created and get it back in this format. This
> tools saves us for having to bother having to buy QuarkXpress, Indesign,
> Framemaker or bothering with the tags of html or scripts because it does
> not come to the mind of clients wanting to reformat the files they get.
> Open source is best for translators but not for agencies last responsible
> for checking the text or reformatting the mess that translators made.

Never mind that even the latest MS office versions support Open Document 
Format since it became the ISO standard for office documents, and ODF is 
already well supported by office software.  Your "nobody wants to exchange 
txt" is a strawman.

If you hate open source so much, why use Linux or Wine in the first place?  Or 
is this a case of misguided anger generated by ignorance?

> > I'd look at gaining actual experience instead of wasting time needlessly
> > reinstalling when you have a working system.
>
> This has nothing to do with experience. That's a problem of graphic card
> not properly recognized and things turning bad when there is an update of
> the driver kernel/problems with drivers. And I am still updating my drivers
> because they have still issues.

You still don't need to reinstall just because your drivers go south...boot 
from a rescue CD and fix from there.  About the only time you really need to 
reinstall is if your system gets compromised...

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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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