Re:Wine 2.0 released
by rodelrod on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:47PM
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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.
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Even with Play On Linux [1] I've found it a lot of hassle to try and run games through WINE.
For example I had a whole set of Tom Clancy games (Ghost Recon, Rainbow Five, etc.) running through WINE. Of course I noted how I got them running on the WINE Appdb. Then a couple of years later needed to reinstall - had upgraded OS, changed video card, etc. - and spent ages trying but ultimately failed. WINE's db had been cleaned and removed my reports, handy; and PoL just wouldn't work (possibly the APU??) despite reports to the contrary.
Sad, when ones knows these things can work. Even sadder with more modern games when the distributor/producers won't mess with WINE so the player doesn't have to.
tl;dr when PoL works it's great.
Re:Wine 2.0 released
by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:21PM
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How is MS Office on Wine these days?
Re:Wine 2.0 released
by orionblastar on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:39PM
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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.
2007 runs perfectly and is all I need.
Still illegal I presume.
Re:Wine 2.0 released
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:12PM
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In what way would that have ever not been legal?