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Old 10-18-2012, 10:48 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian View Post
True, but it makes the post-buy cleanup so much easier, and doesn't affect your desktop no matter what.
instead of having Wine in a VM, why not just use separate "Wine Bottles". Wine supports having completely separate installs, so theoretically you can keep reinstalling the same app, and not have anything mingle with any of the other installs. That way, if something gets mucked up, you just trash that bottle, and move onto the next.

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Originally Posted by K. Molen View Post
Sounds pretty cool. And those additional software packages are just single files, and not just hidden file packages like in OS X? If so, very cool indeed.
Yeah, on the LiveUSB distros, everything can be in the disk image. Basically, they originated as LiveCDs, but they took the disk image meant for being burned onto a CD, and placed it onto a USB drive, and set up the drive to be bootable, and point to the image. Computer loads it and treats it as if it was how it was originally designed for (on a CD).
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