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Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine
- cwyers 8y agoThat seems like an awfully convoluted way to get a text editor for Linux.
- cpach 8y agoSure. I’m still amazed by the effort they put down.
- mivanchev 8y agoThank you very much!
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- azahk 8y agoDon't think there's anything in the world that compares to Notepad++.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI'm a big fan of Notepad++. I wish the UDL interface was a little more flexible, but at least I don't have to learn a new language to create one like I would with the otherwise similar Notepadqq.
- graycrow 8y agoThere is. Far Manager :)
- laumars 8y agoI do genuinely like Notepad++ but it’s hardly unique. If anything, I’d argue that it exists in a heavily saturated market.
- EamonnMR 8y agoI used it for a long time but eventually I realized that it's only killer feature was the file tree on the left which most editors have anyway.
- pcunite 8y agoThe search across all open documents is very good.
- thuf1r 8y agoI can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but just in case, there are dozens of editors that are way better than notepad++. Feature rich ones like Sublime Text, or VS Code, or simple ones like xed / gedit.
- gambiting 8y agoSublime and VS Code are both huge in size and work rather slowly on older machines, despite being nothing else but text editors. I do support OP's statement - Notepad++ is the best text editor available(on windows).
- mivanchev 8y agoYep, I'm surprised how quickly we phase out perfectly healthy machines, just because the software quality keeps getting lower and lower. It's not good for the climate, among other things. I appreciate how zealous the Notepad++ developers are about performance and efficiency.
- azahk 8y agoVS Code has terrible performance. Are you the one who's being sarcastic?
- batrat 8y agolol?(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.
- swebs 8y agoGedit and Kate are both pretty great.
- mivanchev 8y agoThere's no other! An efficient, feature rich, usable product.
- muthdra 8y agoWine 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).
- thuf1r 8y ago(HL2 has run natively on Linux for many years just FYI.)
- cwyers 8y agoI 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.
- mivanchev 8y agoIt 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.
- mivanchev 8y agoImagine 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.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoIsn't it possible to do a static translation of the machine code to ARM, and run native?
- mivanchev 8y agoQuite 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.
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- mhd 8y agoApart 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.
- mivanchev 8y agoYes, this is the truth, thank you for saying it! I do feel phyiscal pain when having to edit something without my favorite editor =)
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- selimnairb 8y agoJust learn Emacs.
- slacka 8y agoOther tools are not always an option. For example, I used CrossOver(Wine) to run WinMerge which had a plugin to support our company's workflow. Wine allowed me to stick with Linux without any time wasted. Over the years, I've tried several native Linux alternatives. All of them would require a huge time investment to replaced the missing features.
- beatgammit 8y agoWould it be possible to change the company's workflow to be less reliant on a single program's features?
- mivanchev 8y agoSorry to be so late, I love rich GUIs and clickable elements :)
- ezoe 8y agoUsing Wine on ARM computer to run Windows program, it even requires you to to custom build kernel, compile Windows program to ARM target, all for.. for a Text Editor? Really? Come to think of it, When I converted myself to Windows user to GNU/Linux user, I studied a lot about Wine. All knowledge was unnecessary for I find GNU/Linux and its ecosystem is much better than Windows.
- detuur 8y agoNotepad++ here is obviously a substitute for any "normal" Win32 application. If you can run np++, you can run many/most Windows applications, obviously discounting stuff that generally doesn't play well with Wine even on x86.
- aasasd 8y agoIronically, programs that one is likely to really miss in Unixes are probably closed-source. (I'm still mourning the absence of Totalcmd and Foobar2000.)
- Waterfall 8y agoTry deadbeef, it doesn't make real playlists (once changed they can't revert) but it's a carbon copy from another windows to linux convert. The UI editor is also substantially better. I just made an account to post this comment, so PM me for more details. It's all open source!
- corey_moncure 8y agoIf it doesn't support FB2K's input plugins, then it's just dead beef to me.
- Waterfall 8y agoInput plugins? It has lots of identical plugins. Give it a try. deadbeef.sourceforge.net/plugins.html