Wine by default?

[Rudolf Kastl]

2007/1/27, David Nielsen <david at lovesunix.net>:
> On lør, 2007-01-27 at 04:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > What are the thoughts on installing Wine by default in Desktop and KDE
> > spins for Fedora 7? It might make it more easier for migrations and
> > heterogeneous environments if we installed and integrated with Wine by
> > default.
>
> I would strongly oppose this for the following reasons:
>
> a) It would be read as encouragement to run proprietary software which
> cannot be supported (but will result in poor Will Woods being flooded
> with reports as experience tells us)
>
> b) It will mainly be expected to run games, which Wine doesn't - this
> also becomes a support trap and the myth that it's a migration tool is
> thus shown false and our users get a bad experience with Fedora since
> their applications won't work.

umm thats plain wrong: http://appdb.winehq.org some games even run
faster on wine than on native windows in some cases.
there are even games that run without hw acceleration -> ultima online 2d client

regards,
Rudolf Kastl

>
> For people who need to run Windows apps, Windows is a perfectly fine
> platform and with KVM I am to understand we can run it virtualized
> environment (provided you have the hardware) which would be safer and
> zero support on hands of the applications in question (we do need to
> support kvm, virt-manager and friends).
>
> - David Nielsen
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