Wine vs. VMWare (Was: Wine: MS Money 2004 + IE6)

[patrick295767]

Derek Broughton Wrote: 
> 
> Of course it is!  The Wine developers are trying (and doing a pretty
> good
> job) to guess at what's happening under the Windows covers, and not
> every
> application behaves the way it is supposed to.  So we try to make our
> apps
> run under Wine, and when they don't we either give up, or dig far
> enough
> into the problems to find solutions (or help the developers plug one
> more
> loophole).
> 
> I've spent more than 5 years trying to get Quicken working, and finally
> I
> have it working "well enough" - ie, it still can't show me Help (needs
> Windows Help to work - that might be fixable, but by now I don't really
> need help), it needs frequent focusing off & back on to windows to get
> them
> to maximize (under windows you don't even see that they _are_ child
> windows) and it runs out of memory doing a year-end copy (so I do that
> on a
> Windows box - not too onerous once a year).
> -- 
> derek
> 

You're right too !! Nicely written, btw. 
Indeed, it is up to us, Linux Users, to find out what's the best
solutions to our daily tasks and entertainments. 
Wine and VMware are v. great programs indeed for Linux Community !

Is there an ideal OS ? Mac OS is also not Ideal ;  Or even further  :-)
, Humans are never satisfied, maybe ? 
:-k :-k :-) :-)


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patrick295767