2008/12/16 Remco <<a href="mailto:remco47@gmail.com" target="_blank">remco47@gmail.com</a>> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Odysseus Flappington <<a href="mailto:deriziotis@gmail.com" target="_blank">deriziotis@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Not sure if this is relevant to wine going into main, but I have to admit, I > find it very frustrating in Intrepid that whenever i stick in a cd with an > autorun or windows executable, it comes up with an autorun dialog which i > have to cancel and which i would never have used since im using crossover > linux or cedega anyway. > > Alex </div>Is it not Crossover's or Cedega's job to disable it, or reroute it to their app? Ubuntu can't support propriëtary software. Remco </blockquote></div> Fair enough (even though the autorun dialog doesnt actually work). But to be brutally honest, the real reason I'm whinge-ing, is because I don't actually like the idea of letting you run windows installers seamlessly in Ubuntu. Adding/removing software from Linux is designed around packages and the package manager. This in my opinion, is an area that Linux has profoundly innovated in. This is also a far superior system to how windows works, and is symptomatic of the underlying development process that the community employs. Why make Linux work like windows? I don't believe it's the best way of doing things. Newcoming windows users will just be disillusioned by the fact that wine doesnt support all of their apps. And it'll distract from the mental shift that's required in order to become a real linux-user. Perhaps a p2p-based repo with winelib ports of all popular windows apps is a bit of a pipe-dream though.. ..then again, perhaps not? Alex