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Re: Does Wine Make Linux Too Loose?
Posted by: Katherine Noyes 2009-11-05 06:26:56

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Following the Karmic Koala's joyful reception last week, sentiments toward the FOSSy marsupial have become distinctly less enthusiastic in recent days -- at least for some. "Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala" was the headline on a piece that ran in The Register on Tuesday, which chronicled multiple cases of frustration among some users upgrading to the new version. Still, the problems one is likely to encounter with Linux tend to pale by comparison with the security problems one is likely to have using Windows. Unless, that is, you're using Wine.

Wine problem solved
Posted by: Runaway1956 2009-11-05 06:30:52 In reply to: Katherine Noyes

I've uninstalled Wine. Why bother with it, when there are apps like VBox, VMware, and Parallels? Instead of giving Wine permissions on the real_machine, I just create a VM. Wander the web fearlessly, knowing that you can always roll that Windows environment back to a snapshot with the click of a mouse button. And, if rolling back to a snapshot ever fails - well - big deal. It's just Windows!! I save nothing important in it, I can make a new one. Phhht.