Tested playing windows games on Linux, it works amazingly stable and we'll, even at high resolutions (4K)
Wine 5.0
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Re: Wine 5.0
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
For games i use Lutis ( https://lutris.net/ ) which gives you something similar to "profiles" (they call it runners, pre-configured isolated WINE instances) for each application. Also it includes a bunch of tricks and helpers out of the box.
I actually have better mileage without lutris - not sure why.
I think is because when you setup the things yourself you understand what you are doing.
Re: Wine 5.0
#43Does Wine still require the complicated, hard to manage, and poorly documented use of various combinations of WINEPREFIX, Winetricks and WINEARCH? It always seemed to me the easiest thing was to spin up a new VM for every application I wanted to run in Wine. I feel like that isn't the intention, but without any built-in profile management you're always one typo away from wrecking your entire Wine setup.
Projects like Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Steam (Proton) solve that problem.
Re: Wine 5.0
#44To the attention of Mac users: Wine won't work on macOS Catalina 10.15 Apple is doing us no favors here, so be aware.
This is not accurate. This version of Wine can’t run 32-bit Windows apps on 10.15, but 64-bit apps do run. Also, CodeWeavers CrossOver can run 32 and 64-bit apps on 10.15.
I'll admit this is a very niche usecase, but not even CrossOver runs 16 bit apps anymore (like Minesweeper for Windows 98). Luckily the Windows XP version is basically the same and is 32-bit.
Re: Wine 5.0
#45To the attention of Mac users: Wine won't work on macOS Catalina 10.15 Apple is doing us no favors here, so be aware.
This is not accurate. This version of Wine can’t run 32-bit Windows apps on 10.15, but 64-bit apps do run. Also, CodeWeavers CrossOver can run 32 and 64-bit apps on 10.15.
Most old games however are 32-bit. Don't have time at the moment to test but I bet I lost UT2004 when I upgraded my Mac to 10.15...
Re: Wine 5.0
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I surely hope so, given that these make it possible to do things with Wine which are difficult if not impossible with a real Windows installation without having to do silly things with VMs or containers. As an example I use Wine to run Sketchup (2016, off-line) on Linux. After 30 days the thing times out and wants me to buy a license which is no longer available given that Sketchup has gone with the times and now doe…
"now does cloudy things" has really made my day, thanks. Unfortunately, a lot of modern software does cloudy things, Windows 10 and MS Office included.
I love IntelliJ approach to these cloudy things. They know developers are smart enough to remove whatever smart thing they can come up with, so instead, they do the obvious and kindly step back.
I apologize for removing their registry entry on Windows for Rider and I promise I will pay for the product when I am financially confident enough to do so. :)
Re: Wine 5.0
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You don't need animated transitions in presentations. This eye-candy is fun the first time you see it, but later it's just an irritating delay. UI preferences are a matter of taste and habits. I find PowerPoint ui a hot garbage mess where I can't find anything, and LibreOffice is logical and structured to me. So my mileage obviously varies.
Replying “you don’t need the feature” to “the feature is clearly bugged” doesn’t make much sense. Anyways, presentations are supposed to grab attention. Nothing grabs attention better than an animation.
If a feature is unnecessary, it does not matter if it is buggy.
As a person who regularly reviews students presentations, I tell you this: these "grabbing attention" gimmicks achieve nothing but irritate the audience. If you rely on it, you better think again, how to grab attention with your presentation contents.
Don't believe me? Ok. Check any of the presentations that had successfully pitched projects to VCs. None of them will contain any "attention grabbing" animations. Example: [1]
[1] https://medium.com/@gc/the-beginning-of-uber-7fb17e544851
Re: Wine 5.0
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not accurate. This version of Wine can’t run 32-bit Windows apps on 10.15, but 64-bit apps do run. Also, CodeWeavers CrossOver can run 32 and 64-bit apps on 10.15.
Most old games however are 32-bit. Don't have time at the moment to test but I bet I lost UT2004 when I upgraded my Mac to 10.15...
You definitely did. It's a 16-year old game so it definitely was 32-bit unless someone created a port or an updated .exe using a newer Unreal version.
Re: Wine 5.0
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually have better mileage without lutris - not sure why.
I think is because when you setup the things yourself you understand what you are doing.
I think actually for some reason lutris binaries don't work that well with fedora or something - but hard to tell.
Re: Wine 5.0
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What exactly makes PowerPoint so good? I’ve never really used either, I’ve mostly relied on pamdoc’s Beamer generator and google slides.
Libreoffice Present is pretty buggy. For example, sometimes clicks don't do the right thing. Also, I've had slide elements become uneditable. These bugs are really noticeable when making presentations with complex slides. Libreoffice also produced really poor kerning, poor antialising and figure quality after resizing (though perhaps this has improved since my last try). Beamer and google slides are fine when you wan…
> Libreoffice Present
It is called LibreOffice Impress.