Re: is wine worth the bytes ?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Joris Huizer wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I had a quick look around on the net on some keywords:
>
> discussion wine - gives alot of info about the taste
> of wine or whatever
> discussion wine emulator - some info - but very
> general or probably outdated (like
> http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Jun/0223.html)
>
> I have this question: I think I might install wine (to
> play some MS only games and stuff). However, a friend
> told me it probably has too little support as it's
> still experimental
>
> What are you're thoughts on this ? 
>
> Sorry is this is really off topic
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joris Huizer
>  

It's been my experience that you just don't know if your Windows app 
will work on WINE until you try it; some do; some don't; some sortta do.

If you've got the horsepower and can afford the expense for a license, 
VMWare is sweet.