Spill the Wine, install IrfanView in Debian

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Feb 12, 2010 6:43 PM EDT
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Sure I've tried Wine before. But never successfully. I took the plunge recently, forking over $20 for the Bordeaux GUI front-end for Wine, the non-emulator that allows users of Linux (and Solaris and FreeBSD) to run Windows applications on their Unix-like computers. I decided to use Bordeaux because its developers (or developer singular ... I'm not sure) promised that IrfanView 4.25 — the best image editor on any platform for my particular needs — would run with it. And I saw plenty of Wine users have trouble with Irfanview. Codeweavers, who I'd rather deal with than Bordeaux, doesn't make any promises in regard to Irfanview. Bordeaux does.

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