[Wine] Re: Which Distro to Use?

[motub]

Fred_E_Krugar wrote:
> As every one here knows that pulseaudio does not work correctly with wine........

Actually, you may be going to a lot of trouble for no reason. PulseAudio, as installed by Gnome 3, so far is working perfectly well with Wine (1.3.33, compiled from source, no patches) on my system (Linux Mint Debian, based on Debian Testing).

I've gotta admit, I'm extremely surprised. PulseAudio was installed "by accident" (I had uninstalled it) during an upgrade of GNOME, and although I've actually downgraded most if not all GNOME components to version 2 again, I hadn't re-uninstalled PA. The only way I even noticed that the sound system had been transferred was because VLC stopped playing sound (the pulse plugin for VLC is not compatible with my version of VLC).

I've just installed 3 games under Wine (Amnesia - The Dark Descent, Fish Fillets 2, and Keepsake), and the sound works fine. I've just checked 2 previously-installed games (Arcanum and Pretty Good Solitaire, installed before the sound upgrade), and the sound (still) works fine.

I suspect that the earlier issues were because PulseAudio did not work, rather than because Wine didn't. Now that PulseAudio seems to be working correctly, so is sound in Wine.

In any case, you might just want to give it a try, and, if my experience is anything to go by, it ought to "just work" (especially if you're also using Debian Testing, to get a relatively decent version of PA/Gnome 3-- though I can't vouch for GNOME3 as such, as I'm not using it, but rather E17). There's always time to distro-hop later ;-) .

Good luck.