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Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by HeckFeck »

mongol wrote: post #4
HeckFeck wrote: post #3

I recently used Wine to run Office 97 on Debian, just for old time's sake. I ended up liking it so much that I now use it for my word processing and spreadsheet tasks. This classic version is feature complete to me. Wine ensures it lives on, long past its support date and on an alien operating system. And clippit says hello! Screenshot for the curious: https://imgur.com/a/GmVUAfC It shows Word 97 on Linux editing a l…

How well does it run?

Excel, Word and PowerPoint run as well as they did on Windows. All the main functionality is very stable. Wine even integrated the icons and mime-types into my DE.

It is only very occasionally I hit any critical error. It has only happened when trying something obscure, like "Microsoft Maps for Excel".

I haven't tried Outlook 97 yet.

But poor old Access won't even get off the ground. I'm guessing due to some ODBC driver too stodgy to have a sip of Wine.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by akersten »

I'd like to take a moment to be grateful for the small graces of the current copyright climate that allow projects like this to exist. If the parameters of a few lines of US Code were slightly tweaked, or a few court rulings different, we'd simply not have this amazing feat of interoperability available.

It's really an amazing thing that we're able to foster projects like this in the open, and we should be careful to preserve those freedoms.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by Siecje »

raffraffraff wrote: post #5

I use Wine for one thing: running MusicBee. It's a pain in the ass to get it working 100%. Every time I've tried to upgrade past wine 4.x it completely breaks my MusicBee wine prefix, so I've locked the version and will never upgrade. Ultimate goal is to wait until any native Linux music player is even 10% as good as MusicBee.

Which features do you desire? What is your ideal music player?

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by tagoregrtst »

ogogmad wrote: post #8
HeckFeck wrote: post #3

I recently used Wine to run Office 97 on Debian, just for old time's sake. I ended up liking it so much that I now use it for my word processing and spreadsheet tasks. This classic version is feature complete to me. Wine ensures it lives on, long past its support date and on an alien operating system. And clippit says hello! Screenshot for the curious: https://imgur.com/a/GmVUAfC It shows Word 97 on Linux editing a l…

What modern MS Office features are missing from '97 but still useful? I'm thinking you won't be able to write formulas using Latex. There's also a 32-bit limit for the amount of memory a program can use.

I think the worst would be .doc extensions instead of .docx

Other than that, give me WP5.1 baby

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by daypay »

acdha wrote: post #9

I'm hoping that I'm correctly interpreting the WoW64 portion of the notes as meaning that I could run a 32-bit x86 Windows binary using the 64-bit Wine on ARM. I don't have a common need for this but I've had a couple of cases where I needed to test compatibility with something ancient and it would have been great to be able to install something in my development environment. In one of the cases, it was a 64-bit exec…

That’s how I interpreted it as well for running 32-bit apps on 64-bit Host.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by selectodude »

ogogmad wrote: post #8
HeckFeck wrote: post #3

I recently used Wine to run Office 97 on Debian, just for old time's sake. I ended up liking it so much that I now use it for my word processing and spreadsheet tasks. This classic version is feature complete to me. Wine ensures it lives on, long past its support date and on an alien operating system. And clippit says hello! Screenshot for the curious: https://imgur.com/a/GmVUAfC It shows Word 97 on Linux editing a l…

What modern MS Office features are missing from '97 but still useful? I'm thinking you won't be able to write formulas using Latex. There's also a 32-bit limit for the amount of memory a program can use.

I'm not sure if it's considered a feature, but high DPI support in text editors/viewers is such a game changer for me that I can never go back.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by The_Colonel »

acdha wrote: post #9

I'm hoping that I'm correctly interpreting the WoW64 portion of the notes as meaning that I could run a 32-bit x86 Windows binary using the 64-bit Wine on ARM. I don't have a common need for this but I've had a couple of cases where I needed to test compatibility with something ancient and it would have been great to be able to install something in my development environment. In one of the cases, it was a 64-bit exec…

Wine Is Not an Emulator, so I doubt it will be able to run x86 apps on ARM.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by adgjlsfhk1 »

tagoregrtst wrote: post #14
ogogmad wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What modern MS Office features are missing from '97 but still useful? I'm thinking you won't be able to write formulas using Latex. There's also a 32-bit limit for the amount of memory a program can use.

I think the worst would be .doc extensions instead of .docx Other than that, give me WP5.1 baby

IMO, .doc might be the second worst format ever invented (second to PDF). It is a proprietary, binary only format for storing text documents. Who thought that was a good idea?

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by mongol »

HeckFeck wrote: post #11
mongol wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How well does it run?

Excel, Word and PowerPoint run as well as they did on Windows. All the main functionality is very stable. Wine even integrated the icons and mime-types into my DE. It is only very occasionally I hit any critical error. It has only happened when trying something obscure, like "Microsoft Maps for Excel". I haven't tried Outlook 97 yet. But poor old Access won't even get off the ground. I'm guessing due to some ODBC dri…

Interesting. My main use case for using Word would be for my CV. Since I don't want it to render a single bit different than on a recruiting manager's screen. Unfortunately PDF still seems to be a bit of a disadvantage in some cases.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by idiot900 »

adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #18
tagoregrtst wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the worst would be .doc extensions instead of .docx Other than that, give me WP5.1 baby

IMO, .doc might be the second worst format ever invented (second to PDF). It is a proprietary, binary only format for storing text documents. Who thought that was a good idea?

It's an artifact of a time when RAM was extremely expensive and CPUs were slow. Dumping the in-memory binary representation to a disk was apparently the logical choice at the time.
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