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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by laichzeit0 on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:22AM (#9392511)
Side note but, not sure why anyone would bother with wine + hackery these days. Virtualbox works perfectly fine for running any Windows apps you "can't do without". Throwing a few gigs of RAM at running a Windows VM to run these apps is not really an issue if you have a modern rig.
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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by ikurei on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:15AM (#9392664)
More reliable approach for powerful machines, but for simple use cases Wine is fine:

- Only for a few apps, like Evernote. - Laptops on battery.

For Visual Studio I'd bet on VMs over Wine, but then I probably wouldn't be using Linux.

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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by Zarel on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:40AM (#9392552)
By "modern rig" are you including laptops? I've always been deathly afraid of running VMs on battery power; has this changed recently?
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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by task_queue on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:53AM (#9392593)
Nothing much has changed in the past couple of years. Wine is still a good go to option if your Windows application will work with it correctly.
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