[Leaplist] WINE (Was: More Anti-Linux Propaganda from MicroSuck and Worst Buy)

[Derek Konigsberg]

I can't speak for Ventrilo, but WoW falls into the small category of:
"Application someone put considerable specific effort into Wine to make it 
work."

Also in this category would be some outdated version of MS Office, and 
just enough other "seed" applications that it allows many Linux advocates 
to falsely claim that "Wine runs most Windows apps".

Sometime, if anyone is curious, try running some serious Windows app 
*other* than WoW or an old version of MS Office, and see how far you get. 
But launch it from a terminal window.  Then, look at all the "stub" and 
"fixme" messages flying by.  Then, go to Microsoft's website and look up 
all the API calls that Wine didn't implement yet or stubbed out.  You'll 
notice that they generally date back to Windows 2000.  And its currently 
2009.

-Derek

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Craig "Fuzzy" Conner wrote:

>> I hate to disagree here but I have never been able to do anything
>> useful with wine.  Solitaire works, a few games of similar complexity
>> work but that is about it.  Luckily I don't care.
>
> I use WINE to play World of Warcraft and simultaneously run Ventrilo
> (voice communication).
>
> It works great. :)
>
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