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On Jan 20, 2008 10:46 AM, Stratos Psomadakis <el05007@×××××××××.gr> wrote: |
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> O/H Mark Knecht Ýãñáøå: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I got interested in looking at Wine again this week. Netflix has |
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> > changed their over the net policies for watching movies, changing it |
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> > for a specific number of hours per month to an unlimited service. I |
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> > haven't used the service much in the past (watched maybe 40 hours over |
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> > the last year) because it required me to both go into Windows AND use |
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> > Internet Explorer instead of Firefox. With an unlimited watching |
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> > policy it now becomes far more interesting to me if it could work in |
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> > Linux. |
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> > With a lot of forum threads about how much better Wine has gotten |
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> > on games I thought I'd give it a try. I emerged the newest stable |
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> > version of Wine, downloaded Internet Explorer 7.0 and tried to get it |
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> > started. The immediate result was Wine failed to install IE7. I looked |
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> > around the WineHQ site but didn't find much specific on Wine in a |
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> > 64-bit environment so I'm wondering if many people here are using it |
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> > that way and what the tricks are these days to actually getting |
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> > something to work AND work well? |
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> > Even if IE7 works then I'll have to see if the NetFlix integrated |
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> > player works. I suspect it won't but I'm taking this one step at a |
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> > time. |
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> > Thanks, |
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> > Mark |
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> i use wine on amd64, without any major problems... |
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> i use it for playing some old games i have,without having to switch to |
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> windoze... |
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> guitar pro 5 also plays well... |
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> if anything goes wrong, i check the appdb in winehq.org... |
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> usually there are guides and howtos to work around the problem... |
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Thanks for the info. That's good to know and it sounds like you're not |
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doing much of anything AMD64 specific? |
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Also, if you are using the newest version of Wine have you ever tried |
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setting it up from scratch with your apps instead of relying on |
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existing .wine directories? It seems to me that the wine developers |
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often want it both ways. They say that an app works, but it turns out |
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it works only with either an older version of Wine or a new version of |
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Wine but only with an older, prexisting .wine directory. When I go to |
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set up the same app on a new machine from scratch I cannot duplicate |
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what the AppDB says. |
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Just my experience. |
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Thanks again! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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