Web Browsers.

[wolfpackjeeper]

I hate wine, most of the programs I try to run just do not seem to work right. So I just run a dual boot instead.

 

[RichP]

Drill down thru firefox, mozilla, seamonkey, etc, you will find chrome at the root and has been for years.
I run seamonkey, combined mail and browser like netscape communicator including the html editor, composer, in one bundle.

 

[xcm]

the problem w/ wine is allmost 95% of the time not wine's fault.

for example some pc games run in wine BETTER than natively under windows....
BUT, it sometimes thinks your cheating and wont let you play online...

for the most part wine is amazing....

 

[kastein]

yeah, when it thinks you're cheating it's because Wine only emulates the user application space of Windows, it doesn't emulate the kernel driver interface - and a lot of games load a kernel driver into the system behind your back so they can snoop around and check what other programs are running, checksum their own libraries, snoop the keyboard+mouse directly and compare them to the commands being given to the game, etc etc. It's a common but rather annoying method that also is the reason a lot of games don't work on Win64.

 

[CherBear]

yeah, when it thinks you're cheating it's because Wine only emulates the user application space of Windows, it doesn't emulate the kernel driver interface - and a lot of games load a kernel driver into the system behind your back so they can snoop around and check what other programs are running, checksum their own libraries, snoop the keyboard+mouse directly and compare them to the commands being given to the game, etc etc. It's a common but rather annoying method that also is the reason a lot of games don't work on Win64.

Yea i have heard of people getting steam banned (if any of you play valve games) for this reason. Not sure if its true tho, valve is usually pretty reasonable.