[Tutor] An Introduction and a question

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 03:27 +0100, Jonathon Sisson wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Here's the situation:  My wife likes to play the game Chuzzle, found at
> > Yahoo Games.  We use primarily Linux, however Chuzzle is written as an
> > ActiveX control, which only works on Windows.  I have not been able to
> > get Internet Explorer to work correctly through Wine, 
> 
> This might not be a Python topic, but I figured I'd respond with what I
> know on this particular subject...
> 
> ActiveX can be run in Linux using the WINDOWS version of Mozilla in Wine
> and a little bit of coaxing as per this HOWTO on the Gentoo Forums (make
> sure you install the ActiveX control in Wine...):
> 
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-246098-highlight-warcraft.html
> 
> World of Warcraft uses ActiveX in it's patch updater, and although I've
> never personally run it I've had many people tell me this method works.
>  Now if I could just figure out how to convince my wife to try Linux (as
> you apparently have done) then I'd be set...kudos to you on that.
> 
> Jonathon

My wife says that she actually prefers Linux over Windows.  The only
thing we use Windows for is playing Civilizations II and The Sims,
although she also uses it for playing Internet games that don't work on
Linux.  She's said that if I can make Linux versions of those games she
plays on Windows, she won't use Windows at home anymore.  When I first
started with Linux, she was kinda iffy about it, but now she loves it.
We've only used it since fall of 2003...