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Posted October 15, 2011
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Dominic998: What's the issue, that libgtk1.2 is not part of more recent Ubuntu repositories? Surely this is because there are newer releases of libgtk that newer software needs.
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Btw, surely installing libgtk from the Arch repositories would install the latest version of it, not the 1.2 that you need?
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xyem: It installs the latest version of the libgtk version, not the latest version of libgtk2 or libgtk3. You can install multiple major versions at the same time, exactly for this reason - to run older software that cannot be upgraded (i.e. closed source).
Ah, interessant!
Posted October 15, 2011
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xyem: ...
Yeah, that's the reason why I wanted to try AtchLinux at some point (I mean, knowing exactly what you do and don't have installed), it would require reading a hell lot of documentation thou and I'm not quite up for that.
Posted October 15, 2011
I've been running Slackware 13.37 on my ASUS Eee PC 1000HA and using it as my primary PC for around 3-4 months now. The gaming performance, for GoGs at least, is pretty good. DOSBox titles obviously run very well, but I've also enjoyed Stronghold, Sanitarium, Diablo II, SpaceChem, Commandos 2, etc, all in Wine. Sometimes they struggle a little to run (you definitely wouldn't be able to play them happily with an external monitor), but they do play very well.

I don't think Wine adds much of an overhead at all. I used to play Warcraft 3 on my old ASUS Eee PC 701 (the very early netbooks with 7" screens and 4GB SSDs) with Wine just fine. Give it a try and see how it goes.
Posted October 16, 2011
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