| Art Alexion on 17 Mar 2008 10:29:20 -0700 |
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On Monday 17 March 2008 10:22:39 schwepes@netaxs.com wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > > On Sunday 16 March 2008, brent timothy saner wrote: > > > there was a gentleman who posted to the list about a month or so ago, > > > saying up until now he had been using windows 95 or 98 (can't recall > > > which) and was considering the move to GNU/Linux. > > > > There's a big downside to trying to mimic the look of another OS: When > > Linux behaves differently, it can come across as a flaw. Having a > > different appearance provides a sense that the user shouldn't expect > > everything to behave as on some other OS. > > I would be much more interested in it successfully mimicing the > functionality. > The problem is integrating proprietary programs to run particular > equipment such as Brother embrodery machines into Linux. It would be > nice if WINE did it all. > I may have been the person talking. I know that I asked about the issue > earlier and later made a crack about migrating to Linux only when my > 486 dropped dead. > Other than running in a vm, interoperability among proprietary win apps isn't likely. In some ways, for security reasons, wine running apps intentionally won't interact with native linux apps. Here's some heresy: If your 486 (win95) machine does this well (for now) why switch? You wanna do other stuff, put the other stuff on a different PC. Attachment:
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