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Old April 10th, 2007, 05:06 AM
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Linux aplications?

I got linux (pardus 2007.1) installed, and to my suprise I can't run .exe files!

I looked into WINE but it looks to unstable, any suggestions?
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Old April 10th, 2007, 05:10 AM
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Same answer I gave Furqan here
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Old April 10th, 2007, 05:15 AM
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Furqan, Linux doesn't run windows executables natively - you need to use Wine or a better option is to use a Linux native equivalent program if available.
What programs do you want to run?
what the hell is a "linux native equivalent"?

and I want to install and run games on it.

(sry for the duplicate post)
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Old April 10th, 2007, 06:26 AM
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How much research did you do before deciding to install Linux?

Linux doesn't run Windows programs in the same way that Windows doesn't run Mac programs. The software developer has to compile the program differently to allow it to run under each different O/S. Some software (mostly open-source) is cross-platform compatible - i.e. the author has released versions for Win32/64, Linux and Mac.

Sadly, due to the still minor market penetration of Linux, not many game developers see any commercial benefit in providing Linux versions of their games.
Most PC games these days are written using the Microsoft DirectX hardware interraction methods and therefore don't EASILY translate to Linux.
You can try Wine (will work for some older games - you have mentioned before it's an older PC).
Otherwise you can buy Cedega from transGaming.
Otherwise, do some reading here:
http://www.linuxgames.com/
and here:
http://www.tuxgames.com/
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Old April 10th, 2007, 02:25 PM
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I didn't do much research at all! A couple of well trusted freinds told me it could do anything windows cold do, so me the linux-tard installed it.


and the system is old except for graphics, so thats why I didn't use suse or corel like I planed in the linux dual boot post.

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Old April 10th, 2007, 09:42 PM
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I didn't do much research at all! A couple of well trusted freinds told me it could do anything windows cold do, so me the linux-tard installed it.
You can do anything on Linux that you can do with Windows in the sense that:

You can create documents/spreadsheets using OpenOffice on Linux
You can create documents/spreadsheets using Microsoft Office on Windows

You can watch movies/listen to music using VLC/Mplayer/Xine on Linux
You can watch movies/listen to music using Windows Media Player on Windows

You can edit photo's using GIMP on Linux
You can edit photo's using Adobe Photoshop on Windows

You can check your email using Thunderbird/Evolution on Linux
You can check your email using Outlook on Windows

You can keep up with your online friends using Pidgin(formerly GAIM)/Kopete (all are multi-client im applications) on Linux
You can keep up with your online friends using AIM/MSN/Yahoo/Trillian on Windows



You cannot literally do everything on Linux you do on Windows, they are completely different systems, but for almost every Windows program, there is a Linux alternative.
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Old April 11th, 2007, 04:10 AM
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Ok, so I misunderstood the sense of which "it can do ANYTHING windows can do". It means it has an equivelent in linux, not that linux is windows with a different name.
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Old April 11th, 2007, 04:16 AM
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Aye. No different then using OS X or Solaris really. They all have their uses. Windows dominates the gaming market though.
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Old April 14th, 2007, 04:17 AM
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Just wanted to chime in and say I had some halfway decent luck with Cedega.

Perhaps you should consider a dual boot? Windows XP/Vista for games, and Linux for everything else? Maybe?
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