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Wine 2.0 released

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Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by mmozeiko »

harperlee wrote: post #128
bandrami wrote: post #11

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?

The Witness. I've heard that it is a magnificent game, but it is written with Direct3D 11, and although this Wine release notice states that "More Direct3D 10 and 11 features are implemented" and "Direct3D 11 feature levels are supported.", it doesn't seem to work yet (in " https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI... they state that it didn't work a month ago with Wine 2.0-rc1). I have both linux…

Interesting fact is that The Witness is ported by Nvidia to run on Shield TV (which runs Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nvidia.the...

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by orionblastar »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #104
rodelrod wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Evernote, sqlyog, MS Office (for compatibility or the more sophisticated functionality of Excel). Adobe stuff I run on virtualbox. I have to use Playonlinux and certain versions of the products to make everything work right.

How is MS Office on Wine these days?

Some versions like Office XP won't work but Office 2003 does. Office 2013 will install using PlayonLinux but won't activate or update or load templates from the Internet.

Myself I find Libreoffice to be better than MS Office.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by artificial »

spilk wrote: post #17
bandrami wrote: post #11

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?

I use it to run esoteric windows-only software on my mac. For instance many ham radio programs are ancient and windows-only, many work fine in Wine. Also I like to run HeidiSQL in Wine because there's not really an equivalent swiss-army-knife kind of tool that I've found that I like better.

I use HeidiSQL on Windows and Sequel Pro on Mac.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by spilk »

artificial wrote: post #153
spilk wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use it to run esoteric windows-only software on my mac. For instance many ham radio programs are ancient and windows-only, many work fine in Wine. Also I like to run HeidiSQL in Wine because there's not really an equivalent swiss-army-knife kind of tool that I've found that I like better.

I use HeidiSQL on Windows and Sequel Pro on Mac.

Usually my use case is connecting to either MSSQL or postgresql servers, but occasionally MySQL as well... I don't think Sequel Pro does anything other than MySQL, does it?

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by projektfu »

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?

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by ww520 »

striking wrote: post #135
ww520 wrote: post #133

This is perfect for gaming VM. Installing Windows in a VM requires an extra license. With Wine, I can install Linux in a VM and install Wine in it to run Windows games. Anything blows up in the VM can be rolled back.

Are you sure that's going to work? I don't think you'll be able to take full advantage of your graphics hardware that way. (Last I checked, Virtualbox and friends refused to allocate more than 256MB of VRAM... so I could play Duck Game and no more.)

Not the latest games that stress the hardware. Mainly the games I download from the web that I don't trust to run outside of a sandbox.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by koffiezet »

rijoja wrote: post #26

This brings me back to the early days of my Linux usage. I've always been fascinated by this project. My very nerdy dream has always been to try to contribute to it somehow. How hard is it to get in to the community?

Same here, I remember the very early days where even the most basic things hardly worked reliably when I played around with it. Back-then it seemed like a dead end to me, but that was 20 years ago or so... Glad to be proven wrong! :)

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by ZenoArrow »

digler999 wrote: post #45
excalibur wrote: post #20

> The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS. This made me chuckle. Better late than never I suppose.

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.
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