Johannes Weiner wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:48:09PM -0500, C R. Little wrote:
I'm setting up my very first install of wine. I'm a bit confused on which one to emerge I
would like to use Office 2003 Professional and have the ability to run games like world
of warcraft. Just more "newbie" questions from me.
Thanks for the help with everything.
Want windows? Use windows.
Not? Check openoffice and perhaps cedega for game emulation.
Games don't run well in emulation, especially Doom III and Half-Life 2,
due to the heavy use of DirectX. You can try Wine or Cedega, but even
the fastest systems will experience quite a performance hit. You're
best off dual-booting a copy of Windows and running the games from
there. It's OK, dual-booting for playing games is a perfectly
acceptable use of Windows. :-P
As for OpenOffice.org, I use it all the time, even on my Windows
machines. Why pay $500 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage and
Outlook when you've got OpenOffice and Thunderbird all for free (plus
any donations you make)? They can read and write Office files with
minimal trouble. The only thing you'll miss is the Office shortcut bar,
but just copy the icons to GNOME's top panel and you're back in business.
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Colin
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