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#55
Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
WINE is a completely different story. It's (very) far from being a reliable solution for end users, Linux itself does a decent pre-filtering of tech-savvy people, it does not try to integrate with packaging and, last but not least, it is not advertised as a feature for major Linux distros. OS/2 is one example that showed that you *can* get too good in emulating windows. Very few people bothered to write OS/2 specific apps as users could run the DOS or windows version anyway. And then when windows introduced APIs OS/2 couldn't match around Win95, it was game over, as there was no serious native app-base to fall back to.
I do understand your concern. I'm just trying to see if you'll consider the benefits of compatibility libraries and emulators as well as the drawbacks. I'll also have to disagree with you on Linux based systems being for tech savvy users only. Not only do we have the N900 itself as proof to the contrary, but I have converted a dozen or so family members and friends to using Ubuntu and none have had any more difficulties using it than they did Windows.