Wine 1.0 and Ubuntu update

[Christobevii3]

I've been running ubuntu on my laptop since 6.10 as a way to force myself to learn how to use it in a daily setting. I must say that things have improved greatly. Wireless drivers now are installed by default instead of having to search, install ndiswrapper, and compile them to get them to work.

With 7.10 I had issues with things chugging along slowly and it made my 1.6GHz turion feel like molasses, but I dealt with it. I just updated to 8.04 and must say the speed is back but also with a slightly slicker looking desktop. Wireless now works about like how windows does in roam mode (which was broken before for my card) and the performance is there.

Now with wine 1.0, i can run pretty much any windows application that does not require 3d (no 3d support on my laptop) without issues. Even slingplayer is now working and plays at a manageable speed considering the age of my laptop along with the lack of 3d acceleration to help it.

It seems that everything is finally getting to the point and click install that is needed for an everyday user to be able to use it without having to search and compile stuff. So don't be afraid, try it!

 

[Sylvanas]

I am recent to Linux and like you, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my other desktop because I wanted to get to know how to use Linux. I think it's great, recognized my wireless router straight up and I was on the net only minutes after installing. I haven't tried any other distro's other than Ubuntu yet but it was easy for someone like me to install and use for Web browsing / Email / Open Office apps considering I had no prior experience with linux. It's great stuff .

 

[BlueAcolyte]

I like Zenwalk... I may have to compile more apps, but it's all good.

 

[Cogman]

I agree completely. I remember back in the day where the wine version was the date it was release, Wine has come such a long way from those days "Whats that, you Don't have to do 100 special edits, get microsoft dlls, ect to get a game working properly. that unfathomable"

Now, like you said, with most things it is a point and click situation, vastly easier then it ever was before. and AppDB has been a god send for anything that doesn't work out of the box. And driver support ect has improved immensely in linux as a whole. Gone are my console days. While I still find occasions to open it up, those days seem to be fewer and fewer.

I just installed linux on a computer that didn't have it for three years, this install and the one 3 years ago where completely different. I didn't have to custom compile my kernel or anything, it just worked And I am loving my NTFS-3g drivers.

*Hugs linux*

 

[Eeezee]

I love Wine, it is bringing gamers who enjoy Linux back into the fold. It's the only reason to use Windows anymore, imho. Ubuntu is very user-friendly and Wine provides a nice bridge for people who would otherwise need to use Windows. :thumbsup:

 

[Macro2]

Can someone help me get started with WINE and SUSE 11?
I seem to have installed WINE and when I click on setup.exe the windows installer shows up but I get an error when I try to install to the default dir (C:/program files) that would be on windows but not Linux. WINE says I have to set up a drive letter C: as a fake drive to install the program to. All I see is a Z drive in the list.

How do I setup the C: drive. I can't even find the terminal or command line to do this in SUS 11.

Yeah, I'm new but giving Linux a shot.

 

[Cogman]

run (from the console) the command "winecfg". then click on "drives" then the "autodetect" button just down from the list box. That should generate all the drives you'll need.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Cogman
I just installed linux on a computer that didn't have it for three years, this install and the one 3 years ago where completely different. I didn't have to custom compile my kernel or anything, it just worked And I am loving my NTFS-3g drivers.

*Hugs linux*

Agreed. I had Redhat on my laptop about 6 years ago. It worked, but not entirely, and was a total PITA to setup properly. A couple/few years later I tried various flavors of linux on my laptop (gentoo, knoppix, ubuntu, mint, FC, Xandros, etc..) and while things were better by leaps and bounds, they still hadn't quite gotten to a sufficient level of ease and simplicity.

I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 on this same laptop and, by George, it really has gotten to the point where everything detects, installs and works correctly. My old geforce2 go is even able to run the simpler functions of compiz fusion, and my wireless finally works "out of the box".

I'm going to have to play around with wine and try to get Diablo II running.

 

[Chadder007]

Ive not had good luck with MSI type installer files with WINE. Any changed with those?

 

[Cogman]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
Ive not had good luck with MSI type installer files with WINE. Any changed with those?

they run, just not like a regular exe. you have to type, in the console, wine msiexec /i thing.msi

(I might have my slashes backwards, it may be \i)

 

[Crusty]

In previous versions of wine you would have to install the MSI engine from MS into wine before you can run MSI's. Not sure if that's changed or not though.