Re: Flight from Twisted Vista (was Re: Ok. Heh, is there still...)

Mattias Westlund wrote:
  > So far almost everything is working smoothly -- I've managed to get
> Photoshop 7 running under Wine and it seems to work pretty good. Looks 
> awful though, with that Win 95 color scheme, but maybe that can be 
> changed somehow (the msstyles support in Wine seems more than a little 
> flaky). I've installed UT 2004 and Jedi Academy and I was surprised to 
> find that game performance in Linux is frigging excellent. I actually 
> get better performance in UT2004 under Linux than I get with UT99 in 
> Windows; my framerate is soaring even though everything's on max and I 
> have AA and Anisotropy set pretty high :) So that was a pleasant surprise.

Man I feel like an idiot now. I can't even get notepad to work in Wine 
and you got games working? Does openSUSE have like a WINE wizard? Or are 
you just that naturally smart?

Also, what about video drivers? Do you have a Nvidia or ATI? Does WINE 
use the windows driver or the linux one?

> However, one thing that (oddly enough) does *not* bother me much is the 
> UI/custo bit. At this point at least I feel that KDE has pretty much 
> everything I need in terms of interface looks and functionality and I 
> really don't miss LS much. So even if LS was ported to Linux, I really 
> don't see myself using it as KDE is good enough for me and lets me set 
> everything up without touching a single config file.

Let's see how long it takes before the " I need to tinker " bug bites you!

> So... thanks everyone. This discussion finally made me install Linux. 
> Now I'm gonna go figure out how the heck to import my Thunderbird 
> profile so I don't have to reboot into Windows to check and send emails :)
> 
> /West
I would assume the profile folder is swappable.  But you know when you 
assume you make an ass out if U & me.


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