Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine • Hacker News Board

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by chewyland » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 12:40 PM UTC

batrat wrote: post #23

azahk wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

4 year old MacBook running Windows 10. VS Code opens in a second and is smooth as silk.

I love it.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by mivanchev » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:14 PM UTC

avidphantasm wrote: post #11

Just learn Emacs.

Sorry to be so late, I love rich GUIs and clickable elements :)

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by mivanchev » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:15 PM UTC

mhd wrote: post #22

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.

Yes, this is the truth, thank you for saying it! I do feel phyiscal pain when having to edit something without my favorite editor =)

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by mivanchev » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:15 PM UTC

cpach wrote: post #3

cwyers wrote: post #2

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

Sure. I’m still amazed by the effort they put down.

Thank you very much!

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by mivanchev » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:17 PM UTC

cwyers wrote: post #25

muthdra wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It was very frustrating at times, I cannot lie... It's my favorite editor though, so I just HAD to do it. Now I have to compile all of the plugins I use.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by mivanchev » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:19 PM UTC

batrat wrote: post #23

azahk wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is exactly why I prefer Notepad++, it's resource efficient, it doesn't matter where you run it on. Even on the Raspberry Pi the performance is quite decent.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by mivanchev » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:23 PM UTC

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).

Imagine being able to play these games on ARM without emulation? This is also one of my goals, but as stated in the article, the effort to port them without source code is substantial.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:24 PM UTC

mivanchev wrote: post #37

muthdra wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Imagine being able to play these games on ARM without emulation? This is also one of my goals, but as stated in the article, the effort to port them without source code is substantial.

Isn't it possible to do a static translation of the machine code to ARM, and run native?

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by mivanchev » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:28 PM UTC

azahk wrote: post #6

cwyers wrote: post #2

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

Don't think there's anything in the world that compares to Notepad++.

There's no other! An efficient, feature rich, usable product.

Re: Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

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Post by mivanchev » Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:32 PM UTC

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #38

mivanchev wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine being able to play these games on ARM without emulation? This is also one of my goals, but as stated in the article, the effort to port them without source code is substantial.

Isn't it possible to do a static translation of the machine code to ARM, and run native?

Quite possible. In the article I mention that a Lithuanian hacker by the name of notaz statically recompiled StarCraft, Diablo 1 & 2. But it's a huge effort, of course. Even better would be to (partially) decompile to, say, C for better performance.