On Wednesday 09 June 2004 09:39, peter Nikolic wrote:
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 16:25, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 06:31, Matt T. wrote:
Or, just wait another year, and wine / crossover is there, or gimp, quanta etc... ;-) there is not much missing anymore!
I own crossover, and it works great for standard apps, but there is a *LOT* missing. And, yes, I've done the recent upgrade.
well i have never managed to get crossover to run so it got canned
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. I'd love to completely forget about Windows,
thats very easy to do i did it around 10 years ago ..
but it's not realistic, yet. Usining Win4Lin, I don't have to reboot to run the packages I need.
and any how there is always VMware if win4Lin dont do it for you personally they are both a waste of space .
yes, in an ideal world it shouldn't be necessary to put in so much effort just to run windows apps. But sometimes I cannot afford that luxury of not using some windows apps. (Besides doing some reverse engineering ;-) If I have a limited time to do a job, and with the old win app I know I can do it in minutes, and the linux apps (I know) will take significantly more time to do the job, or more time than I have, than I got no choice. Tools like win4lin allow me to minimize the windose usage as much as possible. As an example take photoshop and gimp. I can do, and I do, more and more in Gimp. But some things, such as text effects, are still just taking way too much time there, so I do them in Photoshop. Now to make my life easier I still like to know if I can dare to use the generic win4lin 2.6.x kernels instead of the SuSE one, or if I will run into big problems. Can you help me with that? Thanks, Matt