Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols <==== <Nelson> HaHa!
Fri 4 Aug 2023 // 13:36 UTC A Linux zealot who works for $1 a word.
On 8/7/2023 6:23 PM, tomcat@invalid.com wrote:
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols <==== <Nelson> HaHa!
Fri 4 Aug 2023 // 13:36 UTC A Linux zealot who works for $1 a word.
And posted via Dizum.
As long as Linux commercial offerings turn to the Dark Side
(Snaps, curated-gardens-for-commercial-gain), they will
make no forward progress.
The users will run away, make something new, and maintain
exactly 3% desktop market share.
Paul
On 8/7/2023 7:47 PM, Paul wrote:
On 8/7/2023 6:23 PM, tomcat@invalid.com wrote:
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols <==== <Nelson> HaHa!
Fri 4 Aug 2023 // 13:36 UTC A Linux zealot who works for $1 a word.
And posted via Dizum.
As long as Linux commercial offerings turn to the Dark Side
(Snaps, curated-gardens-for-commercial-gain), they will
make no forward progress.
The users will run away, make something new, and maintain
exactly 3% desktop market share.
Paul
Please tell me how to run "Windows Only" programs, like Quicken, on Linux. Not dual boot because then why also have Linux?
Please tell me how to run "Windows Only" programs, like Quicken, on Linux. Not dual boot because then why also have Linux?
You could spend the rest of your life trying to configure WINE :-)
"Joerg Walther" <joerg.walther@gmail.com> wrote
| I'm posting this with Agent, a Windows programme running in WINE running
| on the Linux emulation of a Chrombook. :-)
| It took me just a couple of minutes to figure out how it works, but I
| have been using Linux and WINE before.
|
I love this. Someone with a gmail address boasting
that they've bypassed coroprate control. That's a bit
like a lion breaking into the zoo. Maybe you could post
instructions for this trick to your Google Docs account. :)
"Paul" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote
| There must be a distro out there somewhere, which does
| a better job on WINE packaging.
|
| The WINE PREFIX seems to be /home/username/.wine , so it's
| a pointer to a file tree. This implies you're supposed to
| change that pointer, before using "winetricks". But change it
| to what exactly ?
|
| The first time you invoke "wine", it fills /home/username/.wine
| with items like "drive_C" directory (64 bit version). If you invoked wine
a
| second time, with /home/username/.wine32 as an example, then
| something has to tell WINE it is to configure a 32 bit environment.
| Otherwise, it would fill that directory with the 64-bit version too.
|
| And the instructions I've looked at so far, make no mention of
| anything matching that pattern.
|
| I do these tests in a VM, and when they screw up... I set fire to them :-) | I've developed a rather short fuse for WINE. Which is unfortunate, because | I have successfully used WINE in the past. Like when it was 32 bit only.
| If an article described how a user was expected to use the new model,
| that would help a lot.
|
I haven't looked at it much in recent years. My last foray
into Linux ws not promising. I used to feel like Mac was a
limited-use sportscar, Windows was a useful Ford, and Linux
was a half-finished car kit. Now it still seems to be half-finished
but they're adding the "for your own good" limitations like Mac,
resulting in the worst of both worlds.
Last time I tried WINE it turned out that it wasn't 32/64
compatible. I ended up with 32-bit Linux so that I could have
32-bit WINE, since my software is mostly 32-bit. Unlike
Win64, no Linux version could run both 32 and 64. At least
that was my understanding.
"Paul" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote
| https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wine
|
| "You can combine this with WINEPREFIX to make a separate win32 and win64 environment:
|
| WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/win32 winecfg
| WINEPREFIX=~/win64 winecfg
|
| That shows how you can make a separate tree for 32 bit and 64 bit stuff.
| If you check in /usr/bin, maybe there is a wine and wine64 executable ?
| But then, are those programs smart enough to know which PREFIX is in play
?
|
This is one of my tests to see if Linux is ready to use yet:
Can I do a basic setup without incantations in console windows,
and without spending afternoons looking through online
discussions for answers? I'm getting too old for this. I'm
not willing to waste weeks anymore in order to figure things
out. (Not to mention that there's always the risk that I'll
forget I figured it out!)
| So now, I guess I can start my experiments all over again.
| I need to settle this WINEPREFIX issue, or I'm never going to
| get winetricks to download the environment for me. It's a mistake
| to jam in Mono, when the actual .NET works. That's a mistake I made on
| a previous attempt, was trying to manually install the environment
| using Google searches.
|
I still have very little that uses .Net. I think my AMD display
applet does. But I also still use Win10 on only an occasional basis.
Recently I discovered that all my VBScripts using InternetExplorer.Application won't work on Win10. I like to use
an IE window to provide a GUI. Since the HTAs still work, I
knew that the parts were all there. But Win10 is blocked from
registering the IE object, even though it's there. So now I'm
writing an ActiveX EXE wrapper for a WebBrowser control, in
order to have a controllable IE instance. What a fiasco! Even worse
is that there is a .Net WB control, which I could probably use,
but I'd have to move to a completely different environment and
coding language. Funny thing. .Net has been around for over
20 years now, pretty much since XP. Yet I still have almost no
contact with it.
Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop
Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to
have you run macOS on the cloud
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Fri 4 Aug 2023 // 13:36 UTC
Opinion If you count Android and Chrome OS as Linux, which I do, the
Linux desktop accounts for 44.98 percent of the end user market. But
if your idea of the "Linux desktop" has a front end of Cinnamon,
GNOME or KDE, then it's more like 3.06 percent. Better than it has
been at times, but it's no "Year of the Linux desktop." Maybe,
though, it will be someday.
That's not because suddenly, everyone will realize that the Linux
desktop is wonderful. Sorry, folks, if it hasn't happened by now, it
never will.
But there's another way the conventional idea of a Linux desktop
could become the top PC-based operating system. That's if its
competition ceded the field.
And that's exactly what Microsoft has been doing.
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