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Originally Posted by Eider85
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What I have now is Linux Ubuntu and no other OS on laptop. After I installed Ubuntu I tried installing Spotify wich was suprisingly difficult for someone that doesnt know Linux, After 1 hour I made it due to nice people posting vids on youtube... /sigh...
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Usually means the app developer doesn't care much about linux. It should be easy if the developer makes an effort.
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Why does it have to be so hard to do the simplest things. Couldnt they invent some form of .exe file on linux to prevent all this code writing ?
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They do have them. They're called binaries. Though you can also run lots of windows exe files too using Wine. The reason you have to go through extra steps is because linux still kinda sucks a little bit at having a universal package management system because every distro is trying to be king of the hill - stupidly.
Anyways I recently tried installing Everquest after reading this guide on my linux and I failed horribly...
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Do I use the EQ icon or LaunchTitanium to start EQ ?
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Neither. You make whatever kind of shortcut you can that will run "wine eqgame.exe patchme"
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If Linux is such a great OS, then why is stuff so complicated to do ? sudo apt this, sudo apt that, wine here and wine there.. Anyways.. I cant get EQ to work on my Ubuntu apparenlty. Would be nice with a video showing exactly what to do on youtube if anyone is able to do that.
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You're expecting Linux to be able to provide a painless experience with emulating Windows?
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Doing the reverse (Linux on Windows, using cygwin for example) is just as hard.
The biggest issue is that there are too many chiefs and not enough indians with the developers; i.e. too many forks of too many OS components. Though even still it's pretty easy to use linux if you can read written instructions.