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Kerono Thalmor
Band of Buggered
#1 - 2012-09-25 20:38:13 UTC
Hey guys,
I'm a newer Linux user, but from what I've heard, both Macintosh systems and Linux systems are based off of UNIX. Of course, I could have heard wrong. But, my question is... Will the Mac client work on Linux better than the Windows client under WINE? Or is the Mac client simply the Windows client with a wrapper?

Forgive me if this has been asked before.

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Katrina Bekers
A Blessed Bean
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2012-09-26 10:58:31 UTC
The Mac client is just a Windows client with a Cider wrapper.

I bet it'd work worse than a standard Win+WINE client on linux.

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Kerono Thalmor
Band of Buggered
#3 - 2012-09-27 22:12:17 UTC
Katrina Bekers wrote:
The Mac client is just a Windows client with a Cider wrapper.

I bet it'd work worse than a standard Win+WINE client on linux.


Ah, well that's pretty crap... Thanks for your reply, though. :)

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Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-09-28 02:02:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Neuntausend
also, just mac os both being UNIX derivates doesn't mean you can simply run a linux executable on a mac or vice versa. same goes for solaris and the bsd variants.

the already mentioned cider is the mac os variant of transgamings cedega, which is nothing more than a commercial wine derivate (applewine, see what they did there?) that usually require less tinkering around than wine but don't work as well in the end.