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ducting
15th November, 2011, 09:00 AM
I have linux mint 11 and i have wine, winetricks and play on linux. This used to work with ubuntu but now i got linux mint11 and it logs in but then right when it loads up it kills itself without error message. http://www.uklv.info/g.php

diocesan
22nd November, 2011, 12:26 PM
Call me snarky, but I've never seen the point of using Wine in a home system. After a decade of using Linux I found it is ultimately less trouble to just boot into Windows and run Steam, WoW or whatever there.

Have you checked dmesg for any output?

TheCoder
22nd November, 2011, 05:19 PM
Call me snarky, but I've never seen the point of using Wine in a home system. After a decade of using Linux I found it is ultimately less trouble to just boot into Windows and run Steam, WoW or whatever there.

Or you could just use vmware to run virtual OS's. I quite often run WinXP as a virtual on my linux host and, apart from the odd program that tries to directly utilise hardware, i've never had a problem