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piratePenguin:
My god - wine has fairly been coming along.

I'm posting this message in the Windows version of Firefox 1.5.0.3 - ontop of wine 0.9.13 pretending to be Windows 2000.

It's a little slow and there's one or two minor bugs I've noticed, but other than that it's brilliant. Oh and the fonts - there's only one, but still, this works.

Here's a screenshot which I uploaded in FileZilla, a Windows-only FTP client that also runs brilliantly in wine (except it crashed once - dunno if that was a FZ or a wine issue).

The winecfg and winefile programs are also very cool - when I last used wine, well well over a year ago, I don't remember seeing them (configuration was a complete bitch).

EDIT: wine 0.9.14 was just released, I had a feeling that was gonna happen! argh

Aloone_Jonez:
I'm not suprised to see that Firefox runs well under WINE, but what about other apps?

I wouldn't expect an MS program like Visual Studio to work, have you tried any other programs?

Also how do I go about installing WINE on Ubuntu?

HPC GUY:

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7031:
Not that Wine is bad in anyway, it is good enough to play half-life, but a gamer with Linux isn't going to get very far. Unless you have two PC's or are able to set up a dual boot with Windows and Linux (I have had very bad experiences with dual booting Linux and Windows) I wouldn't bother.

worker201:
Bad experiences dual-booting?  Jeez, man, it's the easiest thing in the world to do.  You actually have to try extra hard to get it to fuck up.

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