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Killerhurtz  ·  3403 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Zorin OS 10 Released, A Friendly Linux Distribution For Beginnners

    Not only this Zorin OS has Wine installed so you can easily install Windows applications on your Linux system. You can download any .exe file and it will work on Zorin OS.

Yeaaaah no, unless they pulled some legit wizardry here that's a severe overstatement - Wine has heavy compatibility issues with anything more complex than a web browser. Games, even the most simple, are right out of the question because of DirectX, Internet Explorers and whatever sound libraries Windows use now (and 90% of the stuff that I saw actually COULD run on Wine had a native Windows release anyway). Good luck with anything that deals with file management too.





MohdSohail  ·  3402 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No doubt wine has compatibility issues but atleast works and is getting improvements everyday. And for a newbie it is an startup and he should work with some of the complexities also.

Killerhurtz  ·  3402 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah yeah - but they make it sound like it makes Linux accessible. It's pretty much a pre-setup Ubuntu build that maybe saves an hour or two of work. And it's still not entirely a replacement for Windows.

MohdSohail  ·  3397 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's better to try a simple Linux distro like this one. I don't think there should be exactly the same Windows look Linux distro.