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I havent used office in a many years now.. but I thought MS Office is now an online offering similar to Google Docs?
Office 360. I dont use it myself but I heard its not comparable and does not work without Internet Explorer...
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> "It's saved me from having to install complex or insecure VMs..." Can you elaborate on this? My intuition is that running an application in a VM provides more security than in wine.
The Linux root is more insulated if your application is in a VM, but running other Windows services broadens the attack surface.
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you're falling for MS's marketing gimmick: "let's put the year in the product name so it will slowly shame and pressure people to give us more money for next years version (whose killer feature is a new splash screen with a year that is closer to now).
You do realise 'let's put the year in the product name' is not MS' current strategy with Office though right? Office 365 is what is promoted most heavily now, for both business and home users.
I have been wondering something for a long time. Why do some programs work better on specific versions of wine? I think that's what makes me feel iffy about the entire project. I know it's amazing work but I just don't get why that would happen.
A few years ago I was working on ReactOS and I found a bug in the list view control. After working hard on a patch, I submitted it and heard nothing about it. Have community relations improved since then?
In terms of getting a patch accepted, your best move is to include tests that prove your change is correct. Explaining how your change fixes an application will also help.
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I was considering of using it also. How good is it ? Are there any differences, restrictions ? Currently I use the 1password web version.
It's a bit of a slog: (1) You have to get Wine working, which can be kind of a hassle - there are a million different guides and ways to configure Wine especially wnen you factor in 32-bit versus 64-bit, winetricks, staging versus devel, etc. It's hard to sort through all the potential ways and figure out the simplest thing to do, which is basically: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds $ sudo apt-get insta…
1. sudo apt-get install wine 2. wine ~/Downloads/1passwod-blah.exec
On first launch wine configures itself and default configuration IMO works fine for running 1Password.
Last piece of puzzle is, making sure Password agent starts automatically when you login to dekstop so I have little .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart - https://gist.github.com/gnufied/c0615a8a90d21a8d575590b5001f...
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Old games for instance :) I love this game from the late 90s called Thief: the dark project from Looking Glass Studios. I don't think there is any way to run it properly on a modern computer without wine or virtualization (which would require a copy of Windows 98).
You can. At some point someone (probably one of the original devs) released anonymously a vastly updated version of the Dark Engine that Thief (and Thief 2 and System Shock 2) used that not only fixed any issues of the original but added several QoL improvements like antialiasing, raw mouse input, widescreen support, etc and since then he makes sporadic updates. Look for NewDark. Sadly AFAIK he's still doing that ano…
Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?
Gaming is a big one too, but maybe less so now than in the past.