Acid test: migrating the spouse

[Dan Kegel]

Been looking forward to trying this for a long time.
What with Wine 1.0 nearly here, and a brand new
computer to populate, I thought I'd try actually
migrating my spouse to Linux / Wine, or at least
see why it isn't yet practical.

I'll record the process here:
http://kegel.com/wine/migrating-user-1.html

So far it's not quite clear it'll work, but it should
be educational, and I'll at least get a bunch of
good bug reports out of it.
- Dan

[James McKenzie]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Been looking forward to trying this for a long time.
> What with Wine 1.0 nearly here, and a brand new
> computer to populate, I thought I'd try actually
> migrating my spouse to Linux / Wine, or at least
> see why it isn't yet practical.

Looks like a worthwhile project.
> I'll record the process here:
> http://kegel.com/wine/migrating-user-1.html

Nice web page.  Like the list of applications she needs to use.
> So far it's not quite clear it'll work, but it should
> be educational, and I'll at least get a bunch of
> good bug reports out of it.

My wife talked me into to switch from a PC to a Mac.  I've never looked 
back.  Wine is the bridge to capture those Windows applications that do 
not have a Mac front end or just will never, ever be ported to the Mac.

I still have a PC in the house, but it is more a 'play toy' than a work 
machine.  It is getting a new hard drive and Fedora 8 (9 is not ready 
for prime-time yet.)  That will get rc2/rc3 installed on it and much 
testing.

James McKenzie