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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?
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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?
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…
I've never thought to try this. Now I have to try this.
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Yes, and it makes you wonder what other amazing things we're missing out on, but for some quirk of law or successful lobbying.
> Yes, and it makes you wonder what other amazing things we're missing out on, but for some quirk of law or successful lobbying. A few simplified examples from off the top of my head: pre ww2 most employers didn't provide insurance. during ww2 healthcare was offered as a perk of the job back in the day because wage freezes caused by world war 2 inflation concerns. you can say that because of hitler that it is the way…
I love to see these updates. Wine has been so useful here that I started buying some old Windows games from Gog even though they don't specify Linux compatibility. I also went back to a vendor I used to use for Windows software and bought their latest version once I found it worked perfectly for my purposes in Wine. So, huge thanks to the Wine developers. Also, somebody has packaged Wine for Haiku OS, and it runs ins…
One of the coolest things about Wine is Winelib. If you compile against it, you can create a binary that will run natively on Windows, and it will run in Wine on any Wine-enabled platform like Linux, BSD, macOS or HaikuOS. Instead of targeting Windows and hoping the resulting binary will work on Wine, you get Windows and multi-platform Wine support for free.
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So interesting… does it work well with modern word documents? I don’t expect it to run docx but somehow I think it might be better than open office in some aspects
It fares quite well, actually. Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/GmVUAfC I converted my dissertation from Docx to Doc using LibreOffice Writer. It opened in Word 97 almost identically (some page breaks notwithstanding). In my dissertation I had a screenshot with some text boxes and arrows floating over it. Good old Word 97 rendered it perfectly, position, formatting, the works. To complete the picture, after o…
I bet if you used Office to convert Docx to Doc, Word 97 would import it without problems. LibreOffice seems to make lossy conversions between formats.
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Wine Is Not an Emulator, so I doubt it will be able to run x86 apps on ARM.
This is a semantics debate, but it kind of is an emulator. Instead of emulating a CPU, it emulates the Windows API. That's obviously a major difference: One is inherently slower, while the other is inherently more complicated. WINE originally stood for "Windows Emulator", but for trademark reasons it was changed to "Wine Is Not An Emulator". That's giving you some mixed messages now, isn't it? [edit] I just checked W…
I have a patch that adds AF_UNIX support (added in Windows 10). It needs help to get it upstream. https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2021-May/187049....
This is very good, because it means cross compiling and testing Windows builds from Unix just got a lot better.