15 Aug
2018
15 Aug
'18
8:06 a.m.
I can only speak for myself but I like to play games and some are Windows
only but a lot of them will run under wine. A perfect example is Doom 2016
there is no Linux client but it runs pretty well under wine and I am a huge
Doom/ID fan going back to the first release in the early 90s of Doom 1 and
even further back of the original Wolfenstein going back to the early 80s.
I don't trust Windows and I will go without a game rather than install it
to play a game but if I can get the game to run then why not? I go the
extra mile and buy Linux versions when they are available and I will write
the company and ask (nicely) for a port, I just recently bought the last
Tomb Raider as it didn't work well under wine unless you had a system much
better than mine and they didn't have a Linux client. As soon as they did
though I like the franchise and I am glad they did it is a really fun game.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:21 AM, William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com>
wrote:
On Wednesday 15 August 2018 05:38:30 Pisini, John wrote:
Don't use Debian Multimedia with Jessie if
you use wine it completely
hoses
the sound in any wine programs.
Better yet, don't use wine at all, as Linux usually has better software
than
anything in Windoze, so I don't see why anybody would take the trouble of
trying to run wine to emulate them. But we all have different needs, so I
will try not to judge....
;-)
Myself, however, I prefer VideoLAN or the MEPIS / mx / antiX repositories.
I
would use deb-multimedia as a last resort. Also you must be sure that you
get
the "genuine" deb-multimedia, not the fake site and repository that
somebody
else is hosting.