Comments on: A rumor we hope is true

By: n8

n8 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:23:16 +0000

Hmm, I've been using WINE technology to play the hell out of Guild Wars on my Mac for the last month. It works staggeringly well. The game plays perfectly. If it was just this one game that played so well, that alone would be an amazing achievement, but WINE can also run plenty of other apps and games with similar aplomb. No, it doesn't always work, but you shouldn't be so quick to dismiss such an impressive project.

By: gh

gh — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:56:00 +0000

Cool…maybe this will involve a large contribution to the Wine project: Quartz support for native interface widgets. That will be awesome!

By: Sparr

Sparr — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:14:30 +0000

Say what? I use WINE to run dozens of windows applications and games in Linux on a regular basis. It “actually-works” for plenty of people. The application database (appdb.winehq.org) lists thousands of applications working nearly flawlessly, and thousands more that work with some caveats.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:08:43 +0000

Personally I run the Windows version of Picasa on Linux with Wine, not the Linux version Everything works.

By: Eric Hamm

Eric Hamm — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:52:39 +0000

Thanks for the heads up! I love Picasa and just about any Google product. One less reason to dual boot my MacBook.