as a newbie would eiither of these products make it easier to install wine versions. Larry
lfchisholm <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> >as a newbie would eiither of these products make it easier to install wine versions.Neither. Both are commercial products. If you are looking for commercial type support, CrossOver is the product that I use. If you are looking for stability, with periodic updates, again, CrossOver is the product I recommend. James McKenzie
Both might have their uses for specific applications... Have a look at the list of supported application for al of them... You probably want to try Wine on its own first, then something like PlayOnLinux and then one of the others, if your application is specifically supported... (Quite a few CrossOver developers work on Wine and they sponsor the hosting of the website, etc.) If you use anything other than plain Wine, you would need to take into account that you won't be helped if you ask on this forum. (The product's own forums should be used...) For CrossOver, a list of supported applications can be found here: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name I you want to run several, potentially unsupported applications, Wine gets updated the quickest, but things occasionally stop working, etc... Gert
Hi Gert thank you for the update. I have tried installing wine and did get installed ok and tried Quicken 2010 deluxe and it got installed ok then got the no com error and found help on the site but some of the commands to get the gehco going did not seem to work. also the folders etc where things reside I am not the sharpest on where and how they fit in. Wine and quicken registration is still a big problem and they don't seem to make it easy to report it so I have found. I did get one of my banks to download and it was complete but then when you try to add another bank you get the no com error. thanks for the tip I will keep trying to resolve the no com error. Larry.
If you are looking for information on Bordeaux/Crossover I've written a couple of reviews on each of these Bordeaux 2.0.4 Review (http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/05/bordeaux-204-hands-on-review.html) CXGames 9.0 Review (http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/05/cxgames-90-hands-on-review.html) Honestly, I love the commercial Wine projects. They rid you of so many headaches in the long run IMO... ~Jeff
I will be very bunt. User any of those front ends don't come to winehq or forum and expect support. We must know how wine has been configured to be able to debug what in heck is going wrong at times. Crossover does have there own official support systems. I don't know how good Bordeaux support is. Basically it not a question really to ask us. We don't do support for product. If product does not give good support is a paper weight.