[Wine] Re: Planning first Linux/Wine install

[anandpursahibwale at yahoo.com]

>  Yeah. Once in a while you may hit a weird installer that doesn't work
> at all under Wine. If that happens and you really need that app, a second
> partition with Windows can be pretty handy. And if the app itself doesn't
> work under Wine you can use actual Windows.

That's what I suspected.

>  If you're planning on any gaming

Nope, thankfully.

> If you're
> just going to use it to install things for Wine and maybe run a couple of
> other apps that Wine dislikes, then you might be better off skipping the
> partition method and just installing a Windows image under Qemu. With the
> accelerator kernel-module, qemu runs almost native speed, and you avoid
> all that nasty mucking about with rebooting.

Migrating to Linux, I'll have plenty to learn, I might try the multiple
boot options (I'm rather familiar with IBM's Boot Manager) until I can
get comfortable, then move on to one of these other options.

>
> >  I'm giving up on OS/2 after 13 years, and don't really want to rely on W2K,
>
>  Ah, OS/2, we hardly knew ye. I'm an Amiga refugee, myself. :) Welcome
> aboard!

Thanks for the welcome!