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Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by detuur »

ezoe wrote: post #18

Using Wine on ARM computer to run Windows program, it even requires you to to custom build kernel, compile Windows program to ARM target, all for.. for a Text Editor? Really? Come to think of it, When I converted myself to Windows user to GNU/Linux user, I studied a lot about Wine. All knowledge was unnecessary for I find GNU/Linux and its ecosystem is much better than Windows.

Notepad++ here is obviously a substitute for any "normal" Win32 application. If you can run np++, you can run many/most Windows applications, obviously discounting stuff that generally doesn't play well with Wine even on x86.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by mhd »

cwyers wrote: post #2

That seems like an awfully convoluted way to get a text editor for Linux.

Apart from being a decent demonstration, editors are deeply personal. Some carpenters might not have a favorite hammer, but others do…

There's a reason why you find emulations of most editors in history remade for "modern" systems, no matter whether that legacy system is TOPS, VM/CMS, Plan 9 or Windows.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by batrat »

azahk wrote: post #20
thuf1r wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but just in case, there are dozens of editors that are way better than notepad++. Feature rich ones like Sublime Text, or VS Code, or simple ones like xed / gedit.

VS Code has terrible performance. Are you the one who's being sarcastic?

lol?(Windows user perspective) Unless you run it on 10 year old hardware yes, terrible performance. Notepad is better. But if you have at least an ssd and 4gb of ram, I don't see any issues.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by cwyers »

muthdra wrote: post #7
cwyers wrote: post #2

That seems like an awfully convoluted way to get a text editor for Linux.

Wine is at least a valid way to get sweet sweet video games for Linux like KOTOR, Half-Life 2, IL-2 Sturmovik and Call of Duty (examples from my low-end Intel graphics 4000 laptop).

I mean, this is "valid" if this is the software the author wants to run, I'm just surprised anyone would go to this kind of trouble to run Notepad++, which is something like my fifth-favorite text editor.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by beatgammit »

slacka wrote: post #14
avidphantasm wrote: post #11

Just learn Emacs.

Other tools are not always an option. For example, I used CrossOver(Wine) to run WinMerge which had a plugin to support our company's workflow. Wine allowed me to stick with Linux without any time wasted. Over the years, I've tried several native Linux alternatives. All of them would require a huge time investment to replaced the missing features.

Would it be possible to change the company's workflow to be less reliant on a single program's features?

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by aasasd »

ezoe wrote: post #18

Using Wine on ARM computer to run Windows program, it even requires you to to custom build kernel, compile Windows program to ARM target, all for.. for a Text Editor? Really? Come to think of it, When I converted myself to Windows user to GNU/Linux user, I studied a lot about Wine. All knowledge was unnecessary for I find GNU/Linux and its ecosystem is much better than Windows.

Ironically, programs that one is likely to really miss in Unixes are probably closed-source. (I'm still mourning the absence of Totalcmd and Foobar2000.)

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by Waterfall »

aasasd wrote: post #27
ezoe wrote: post #18

Using Wine on ARM computer to run Windows program, it even requires you to to custom build kernel, compile Windows program to ARM target, all for.. for a Text Editor? Really? Come to think of it, When I converted myself to Windows user to GNU/Linux user, I studied a lot about Wine. All knowledge was unnecessary for I find GNU/Linux and its ecosystem is much better than Windows.

Ironically, programs that one is likely to really miss in Unixes are probably closed-source. (I'm still mourning the absence of Totalcmd and Foobar2000.)

Try deadbeef, it doesn't make real playlists (once changed they can't revert) but it's a carbon copy from another windows to linux convert. The UI editor is also substantially better. I just made an account to post this comment, so PM me for more details. It's all open source!

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by corey_moncure »

Waterfall wrote: post #28
aasasd wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironically, programs that one is likely to really miss in Unixes are probably closed-source. (I'm still mourning the absence of Totalcmd and Foobar2000.)

Try deadbeef, it doesn't make real playlists (once changed they can't revert) but it's a carbon copy from another windows to linux convert. The UI editor is also substantially better. I just made an account to post this comment, so PM me for more details. It's all open source!

If it doesn't support FB2K's input plugins, then it's just dead beef to me.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by Waterfall »

corey_moncure wrote: post #29
Waterfall wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try deadbeef, it doesn't make real playlists (once changed they can't revert) but it's a carbon copy from another windows to linux convert. The UI editor is also substantially better. I just made an account to post this comment, so PM me for more details. It's all open source!

If it doesn't support FB2K's input plugins, then it's just dead beef to me.

Input plugins? It has lots of identical plugins. Give it a try. deadbeef.sourceforge.net/plugins.html
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