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Re: three questions about debian



Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Miles Bader wrote:
Doofus <doofus@bulldoghome.com> writes:

How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it
(admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when
32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable
either.
5 years ago wine was pretty flaky.  These days it appears to be pretty
nice.  It seems to run to run most modern windows software I've tried
with it (various 3rd part apps, nothing from MS) with no obvious
problems.


Out of curiousity, does it still choke on those braindead 16-bit
installers?  I recall a couple of years ago trying to install programs
that used a 16-bit installer and having the install utterly fail.
However, if I installed to a real Windows system and then copied all the
installed files over, it ran.
Afaik, "Most" windows programs now actually install. It is officially a bug if it does not. (Codeweaver's ran a very good initiative to get apps to install).

A caveat is that wine's configuration has changed, you probably don't need to change the settings or even make ~/.wine anymore. (It will automatically make a ~/.wine/c_drive for you)

I do recommend you use the latest versions of wine whenever possible, though.

Disclaimer: Not  a regular wine user.



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