Re: Why I dislike WINE
Originally Posted by
monkeybrain2012
I prefer to use native Linux applications as much as possible. If one thinks that WIndows applications are so great he/she should be using WIndows. That said, I do use WIne for 3 things: WInbugs (which is not essential as I have jags, but it is still cool to be able to get it running), pdf-xchange-viewer (for easy form filling, okular sorts of work but sometimes doesn't render the fields properly) and plants vs zombies. For those purposes it works very well but I wouldn't trust it for anything more serious (still hh doesn't render chm files correctly,--links don't work,-- and chmsee which runs natively in Linux is much better) Upgraded to wine1.5.22 via ppa and it is complaining that it needs wine-gecko1.9 and the ppa only provides up to 1.8, oh well.
Well, you've shown, yourself, why Wine is important. Most people use it to run the one or two Windows apps that they really need, and they like using Linux. I think it's great that people can choose to use the Linux that they like, and still be able to use some apps developed for Windows that they need or like.
Originally Posted by
Copper Bezel
I had no problems installing Office on PlayOnLinux. I just couldn't enable the font smoothing, because I couldn't find a way to tweak the Wine prefixes for apps in PlayOnLinux. PlayOnLinux is supposed to take care of that sort of thing, but they missed a spot, and it was an important one.
I didn't remember the details of the process for Wine, but yes, you're right, I had to force Wine to run 32-bit to get Office to install there.
So you actually got font smoothing to work in MS Office? I haven't used Office in Wine for a while, but that was the main thing that a lot of people cried about. If it's not already on there, you really should post instructions on how you do that in the Wine subforum. That's a pretty huge fix.
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