Linux-vs-Windows (was Re: Augury and reading ...)

[John Esak]

>
> WinE has come *quite* a ways along.
>
> It will happily run Office 2000 these days...
>
> > Unless this new breed of Linux desktop clients allows the use
> of any of the
> > zillions of readily available programs to be run without
> problem, they (it)
> > will run into the same thing Apple has for the past couple decades. They
> > have only a tiny percentage of any store's shelf-space... Unfortunately,
> > people use these big mainstream products everywhere these days.
> I don't see
> > how the new Linux desktop client will get past this obstacle.
>
> Look into WinE.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
> Jay R. Ashworth

I just looked at the SuSE page for their new desktop client. Picture of the
box and everything. It clearly states on the page (several times) that NO
other software is needed... nothing else required... etc., etc. Doesn't this
seem a little disingenuous if everyone knows you need something else to run
any mainstream apps that you might have?  Where does one get WinE and would
it be an easy install on any Linux, etc. Biggest question of all, why
wouldn't SuSE write whatever WinE is and include it in their "so complete"
dsktop???  To me it is almost the old car salesman thing of "Oh, you want
wheels with that???"  :-)

John