On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Kai Blin wrote:
Szabolcs, the biggest reason why we don't tell people to run applications from an NTFS partition is not strictly a technical one but just the fact that people then try to run applications they installed under windows. This will fail for almost every application that depends on certain registry entries being created by the install process.
Thank you for the explanation.
Could the windows registry entries be mapped to the one wine needs? I guess nobody expects instant 100% success but if the most important ones could cover over 90% of the apps then that could be a decent start and worth improving and maintaining in the future.
Unfortunately the only feedback which arrives to us is that wine users are annoyed/confused by the separate installation for wine. Apparently this is a major wine usability and adaption problem.
Best regards, Szaka
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