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SGSeeker · 10-20-2003, 04:18 PM

How is Win4Lin?

I've been using Gentoo off and on for a few months and gave it its own 40GB partition a month or so ago so I could get it out of virtual pc. To me, its one of the easiest distributions to use as everything's easy to install and manage (portage is the best). Supposedly Gentoo doesn't perform as well as other distributions though, even though it compiles with your specific optimizations. Still don't know what's up with that...

I was running my main system in it for a few weeks, but afterwards I had to return to XP as there were too many missing things (and wine doesn't like install shields). NVidia has yet to get video overlay working properly in linux so right now its setup to just clone. I had a few concerns about linux as the main os, but I don't remember what they were. If I remember them, I'll be sure to ask you

Basically, there's so many windows-only apps/games that I haven't been able to get running under linux.

Edit:
Connecting to "shared folders" on a windows box in linux? I searched for a bit last week but gave up. Right now I have to login to the windows pc through ftp and upload/manage files from there. Over a network, is there still problems with writing to ntfs or do the protocols take care of that? Know how I'd be able to link to a network drive? Just use a symbolic link?

10-20-2003, 04:18 PM	#2
SGSeeker Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Washington Posts: 14	How is Win4Lin? I've been using Gentoo off and on for a few months and gave it its own 40GB partition a month or so ago so I could get it out of virtual pc. To me, its one of the easiest distributions to use as everything's easy to install and manage (portage is the best). Supposedly Gentoo doesn't perform as well as other distributions though, even though it compiles with your specific optimizations. Still don't know what's up with that... I was running my main system in it for a few weeks, but afterwards I had to return to XP as there were too many missing things (and wine doesn't like install shields). NVidia has yet to get video overlay working properly in linux so right now its setup to just clone. I had a few concerns about linux as the main os, but I don't remember what they were. If I remember them, I'll be sure to ask you Basically, there's so many windows-only apps/games that I haven't been able to get running under linux. Edit: Connecting to "shared folders" on a windows box in linux? I searched for a bit last week but gave up. Right now I have to login to the windows pc through ftp and upload/manage files from there. Over a network, is there still problems with writing to ntfs or do the protocols take care of that? Know how I'd be able to link to a network drive? Just use a symbolic link?