[Wine] Never had an app work in WINE

[David C. Kerber]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wine-users-bounces at winehq.org 
> [mailto:wine-users-bounces at winehq.org] On Behalf Of atalaras
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 4:41 PM
> To: wine-users at winehq.org
> Subject: [Wine] Re: Never had an app work in WINE

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> 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.

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