Right i have an EEE for surfing T'interweb whilst i am out and about but have never really used linux other than web browsing.

I know nothing about it and got confused when reading articles.

So all i want to do is install some games and other apps on it and read about the Wine programme.

what do i have to do to get wine and install things.

may come as a shock, but you simply download and install.

read the wine wiki ffs


and dont play games on a linux machine.

jug said:

may come as a shock, but you simply download and install.

read the wine wiki ffs


and dont play games on a linux machine.

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ill do what i want on it its my laptop i need to play and travel

the EEE really isn't up to gaming...

jug said:

may come as a shock, but you simply download and install.

read the wine wiki ffs


and dont play games on a linux machine.

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:yeahthat:

and TBH, it is useless for gaming, Mac pro and install XP if you want a good gaming PC

its not going to be a gaming PC

just want football manager on it.

If you can't get your head around Wine....try Crossover Office....Wine for Idiots....

mehstg said:

If you can't get your head around Wine....try Crossover Office....Wine for Idiots....

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Its called crossover linux now.

And jug it isn't as simple as download and install.... It never is on linux. Not unless your lucky enough to have a precompiled package for your specific distro your using.

ChrisUK said:

Its called crossover linux now.

And jug it isn't as simple as download and install.... It never is on linux. Not unless your lucky enough to have a precompiled package for your specific distro your using.

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Thats whats good about Ubuntu.

Add\Remove application download and install manager with a list of close to 100 different apps and a few games. Games are pretty all much crap but theres a couple good ones.

The Beast said:

Thats whats good about Ubuntu.

Add\Remove application download and install manager with a list of close to 100 different apps and a few games. Games are pretty all much crap but theres a couple good ones.

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Most distro's have a package manager weither it uses RPM's or DEB packages. just a case of figuring out how to use it on different distro's

ChrisUK said:

Its called crossover linux now.

And jug it isn't as simple as download and install.... It never is on linux. Not unless your lucky enough to have a precompiled package for your specific distro your using.

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precompiled binary packages are available for many distributions. i havent tried downloading the source to compile myself.

jug said:

i havent tried downloading the source to compile myself.

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Hehehe .

Its great "fun" :bang:. Usually easy as long as you got all the required dependancies installed and it has a newer style "make" compile script.