Comments on: 5 Reasons Every Linux and Mac Fanboy Should Care About WINE

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:56:44 +0000

Enough with the fanboys! The fact is no operating system is a match for Windows without the software support Windows has. Want to replace Windows? Build software support equal to or better then what Windows has. I use Windows because I like the interface and how it functions(I have never had a bsod or crash) I do know they happen oddly enough with the same frequency as kernel panics. As I said if any OS matched the software support of Windows I would give them a try and if I liked how they layed things out I would switch.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:05:01 +0000

I agree Brandon. Linux has a long way to go. I actually prefer the mac myself. It’s not quite the perfect operating system but it beats the hell out of all the rest that I’ve worked with both professionally and personally.

By: Brandon Weaver

Brandon Weaver — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:34:28 +0000

That should be paradox*

By: Brandon Weaver

Brandon Weaver — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:33:20 +0000

Why do I care if people switch to Linux? What’s with the conversion campaign? The reality is, most people don’t give a shit what Linux is (nor do they know). You have to be technically inclined to install an operating system, and you have to have some interest outside of ease of use. If you do, then you’ll find Linux yourself. Linux is in sort of a paradigm, because most people that know what Linux is are usually smart enough to maintain Windows software, and the people that would most benefit from Linux’s security and stability don’t know/care. Who are we marketing this to? Why don’t we just concentrate on building the best damn operating system we can, instead of assimilating these new users that don’t even exist?

WINE is not a substitute for anything. It’s a hack, and very few apps run perfectly on it. WINE isn’t even a solution to run IE, because it can have very subtle rendering differences that a web designer like yourself would need to pay attention to. And you have to be joking if you think businesses are going to use WINE.

All the energy that went into WINE could have gone to something useful, like a replacement for TurboTax, or Microsoft Exchange (the latter is what’s really holding Linux back in the business department).

By: Steve Parker

Steve Parker — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:06:36 +0000

You heard about Wine yesterday and are already in a position to tell others what to think of it?

Your conclusions miss one point…
If Wine was “perfect”, there would be no need for Linux. OS/2 suffered exactly the same fate; because OS/2 would run Windows applications as well as native apps, it made developers’ lives very easy: There’s no need to develop OS/2 applications at all, just write for Windows, and OS/2 users will be able to run the Windows app.

The result: nobody wrote OS/2 applications, and as a result, nobody bought OS/2.

However, there’s always time for a quick plug for ies4linux: http://www.tatanka.com.br/
Limited use like this is convenient; full emulation of Windows would defeat the point, and reduce the significance of GNU/Linux