Re:Wine 1.7.12 Released
by yogo on Friday February 07, 2014 @05:17PM
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I have to agree. I think it's a great, and much needed, project but I discovered that just beefing up my hardware a little and running Windows on VirtualBox was cheaper in the end. Many applications don't work out of the box, and require all sorts of twists and turns to get them working, if at all possible.
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Re:Wine 1.7.12 Released
by venomsnake on Friday February 07, 2014 @07:48PM
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Until Virgil3D is mature enough this approach is no starter for games.
> running Windows on VirtualBox was cheaper in the end
"cheaper"? Wine is free software, whereas to run Windows you need a Windows license.
Your time is never "free".
Time and money are not seamlessly convertible at all, so, if this was the intended meaning of the comment, I think "cheaper" is misleading in comparison with e.g. "faster", "easier", "more efficient", "less time-consuming"...