> I was rather shocked to see that PlayOnLinux hogs 800 MB on my hard drive. I > guess there's support in there for just about every freaking service that any > Windows application might want. I had just assumed that that stuff would be > installed on an as-needed basis (Maybe standalone Wine does this?). >
It's been a while since I used wine (I prefer just using an HVM for this) and PlayOnLinux, but here's the gist: wine and wine dependencies are relatively light, but will create a "windows" simulated directory under ~/.wine which holds all the actual app executables. Wine would go in TemplateVM and run in an AppVM. It WILL eat up space in the AppVM. PlayOnLinux creates (Last time I used it) MULTIPLE windows directories (one for each app?) on the AppVM, which eats a ton of space. You probably only need PlayOnLinux if you are actually running a DirectX game etc. PlayOnLinux includes EVERY addon to Wine (Wine->OSS->PulseAudio) with patches to make specific applications work. If you can get it running in just Wine, you can select which extensions get installed. As for security, imagine my surprise when my Linux desktop started popping up malware ads, which ran quite happily in Wine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/4b0e506c-760f-4528-9430-179c6d9a7f34%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
