I installed the prebuilt rpm. I tried: WineX-1.0-2 and WineX-1.0-3 rpms, the latest preview 5 of codeweavers-wine, and the latest stripped winehq binary. Upon installing a new wine version I always run a quick test to get a general feel as to how well it will likely do the job. Basically, I try to run any 3 or so of the following: notepad, wordpad, IE, mspaint, solitaire and minesweeper. If the new wine has no trouble running these then I know that it wasn't broken from previous releases (ALL the winehq and codeweaver releases over the last year have no problem with these simple apps). I also assume that it will do a reasonable job of running other apps of more importance (these are just my testers). I then might try Diablo, StarCraft, Half-Life to make sure they work. I haven't ever gotten this far with WineX. WineX cannot run a single one of the test apps. This tells me 2 things, 1) WineX is LESS functional than any of the freely available versions of wine - but it costs money, and 2) it isn't likely to have much luck with/cannot be trusted to be able to handle ANY other app. I do not just want a few games to work (they work with the other variants afterall), but I also wan't/need for non-game apps to work too. With WineX you are assured that whether an app works or not is a total, complete crapshoot with poorer odds than any other wine variant. My beef involves several things. If you are going to charge for it, it damn-well better be AT LEAST of equal functionality to any of the freely available variants (and I've repeatedly demonstrated that it is actually less functional). Another beef is the absolute lack of ANY documentation/instructions to go with it...or the complete lack of any message output for why things aren't working. I had to do straces to get any useful information out of winex - only to find that it requires something that it isn't supplying (but EVERY other free non-winex version DOES supply/doesn't need, to whit, libMFC42 and /usr/lib/mmx, whatever THAT is). Finally, it does NOT get along with an already installed windoze. It insists on one choice: install the "fake" windoze. So, this means that if you already have apps/games installed via windoze, they are useless to you. You are expected to reinstall all of them into your linux system, usually into your individual HOME directory. So, if you want to use winex as it appears to be designed, you have to allocate gigabytes of space to each HOME directory so there is enough space to install huge games or other apps that may already happily reside somewhere else on your system - installed via windoze. All the other wine variants have no problem with this. WineX apparently does. It would be one thing if winex was functional enough that you could safely remove windoze entirely from your system (that would be nice) but it clearly isn't (can't run notepad!? C'MON!). I paid my Transgaming subscription fee so I could access their fully functional WineX. The cvs source is freely available but lacks certain capabilities - which really doesn't bode well since their "fully-capable" pay-to-download version appears, by all measures I've tried, to be less capable overall than any other freely available wine. I mean C'MON! It can't even run mspaint?! How hard is that? It can't handle a very trivial windoze app and I should trust that it will handle non-trivial, more important apps? ALL other wine variants over the last year (at least) can handle this simple little test and then run a number of others to boot. I checked and rechecked the config file...no problems there that I could see (and of course there is that totaly lack of documentation or instructions too). The first time I installed it, I tried to get around its insane requirement that it install into your personal HOME directory instead of ONE install for everyone to access. That didn't work even though by logic it should have. I then uninstalled it, installed preview-5 of codeweavers and viola! Worked like a champ, provides the very informative and friendly configuration process with lots of messages and information (more than you really need actually). I then uninstalled it and tried WineX-1.0-3. No worky again on my test apps. Out it went and back went codeweavers. If I really need it, I can always download a daily build from winehq and be reasonably certain that it will be more functional out of the chocks than winex has ever proven to be for me. I paid money for this (winex). THAT irritates me no end.
On Friday 08 February 2002 06:32 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING > > will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it > > does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing. [...] > Hi. I'm surprised it doesn't at least give an error message...but...go into > your /home/user/.transgaming directory and open up config (its a text > file). Make sure that the paths/settings are correct for your system. Maybe > they wouldn't configured right during installation? [...]
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