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Wine 5.0
- frereubu 7y agoPrevious discussion (with 110 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108890 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108890
- ziotom78 7y agoLet's hope that «multi-monitor support» will help this bug [1] go away! I have found that most of the Windows apps I used to rely on have good counterparts working on Linux, but sadly nothing matches Powerpoint (no, LibreOffice does not count). [1] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7416 https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7416
- driminicus 7y agoOnlyoffice is getting there, but it is still missing a few features, such as animations.
- fifnir 7y agobeamer slides?
- swiley 7y agoWhat exactly makes PowerPoint so good? I’ve never really used either, I’ve mostly relied on pamdoc’s Beamer generator and google slides.
- frozenport 7y agoIts easy to generate complex vector graphics as well as presentations. Orders of magnitude increase in productivity compared with Latex or Beamer. This might not be felt in the coding community, as their diagrams are standardized and hence simple .
- infinityplus1 7y agoI have used it to create icons, posters, product screenshots and what not. It's really versatile.
- xioxox 7y agoLibreoffice Present is pretty buggy. For example, sometimes clicks don't do the right thing. Also, I've had slide elements become uneditable. These bugs are really noticeable when making presentations with complex slides. Libreoffice also produced really poor kerning, poor antialising and figure quality after resizing (though perhaps this has improved since my last try). Beamer and google slides are fine when you want bullet points or a figure. My scientific work produces lots of pictures and graphs - figure placement and labelling is really important. Animations are also sometimes necessary. Beamer, google slides and libreoffice just don't work well there.
- anticensor 7y ago> Libreoffice Present It is called LibreOffice Impress.
- sgz 7y agoI try to avoid using MS products (not hate, just trying to favour free software), but I had to learn extensively about Office last year and I really enjoyed the UX. It has some powerful features for working with animations, transitions and effects. Take this example [1] -I don’t think it’s even possible to do in Google Slides, which finds its power by being more simple and multiplatform. So it depends on your needs, which also applies to Beamer. [1]: https://youtu.be/3wtwVE5injI https://youtu.be/3wtwVE5injI
- pge 7y agoThe other issue is that even if you had an office application with feature parity to Powerpoint, Powerpoint is still the one that everyone else is using. As a result, perfect file compatibility is more important than features. I haven't used Open/LIbreOffice in about two years - I stopped because I could not collaborate with colleagues on the same PPT file if I was using LibreOffice. Little things in format and layout would get messed up when you went back and forth.
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoLibreOffice is able to create presentations in PDF format, and that's all anyone needs from presentations.
- wiz21c 7y agoI love LibreOffice and rely only on it. But its Impress part is really cumbersome to use compared to PowerPoint (and I hate to admit that). All the icons are lined up front and hard to distinguish; some bugs are really annoying (animated transitions don't work on my computers); some functionalities are tough to find : grouping/ungrouping for example. If only I had time, I'd work to fix that...
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoYou don't need animated transitions in presentations. This eye-candy is fun the first time you see it, but later it's just an irritating delay. UI preferences are a matter of taste and habits. I find PowerPoint ui a hot garbage mess where I can't find anything, and LibreOffice is logical and structured to me. So my mileage obviously varies.
- AndriyKunitsyn 7y agoReplying “you don’t need the feature” to “the feature is clearly bugged” doesn’t make much sense. Anyways, presentations are supposed to grab attention. Nothing grabs attention better than an animation.
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoIf a feature is unnecessary, it does not matter if it is buggy. As a person who regularly reviews students presentations, I tell you this: these "grabbing attention" gimmicks achieve nothing but irritate the audience. If you rely on it, you better think again, how to grab attention with your presentation contents. Don't believe me? Ok. Check any of the presentations that had successfully pitched projects to VCs. None of them will contain any "attention grabbing" animations. Example: [1] [1] https://medium.com/@gc/the-beginning-of-uber-7fb17e544851 https://medium.com/@gc/the-beginning-of-uber-7fb17e544851
- LoveMortuus 7y agoI love Google Slides, it allows me to get make slides without aditional complications, I do prefer simpler slides, and to be honest I kind of dislike it when people have animations that take literal seconds! The way I see it, slides are an aid, they're there just to help me stay on track and to guide me. That does NOT mean that you should read of of it... Sorry, it's just so many people get presenting SO wrong... It angered me so much that when I was in University I decided to make a presentation about making presentations, in hopes that maybe the students would learn a thing or two and make start making better presentation. tl;dr; Google Slides is web-based, thus it works everywhere
- kuerlenonp 7y agoFingers crossed!
- marc3842h 7y agoPretty sure Office is available as web app[0] [0]: https://products.office.com/en-us/free-office-online-for-the-web https://products.office.com/en-us/free-office-online-for-the...
- Dayshine 7y agoDoes Wine still require the complicated, hard to manage, and poorly documented use of various combinations of WINEPREFIX, Winetricks and WINEARCH? It always seemed to me the easiest thing was to spin up a new VM for every application I wanted to run in Wine. I feel like that isn't the intention, but without any built-in profile management you're always one typo away from wrecking your entire Wine setup.
- sparkling 7y agoFor games i use Lutis (https://lutris.net/ https://lutris.net/) which gives you something similar to "profiles" (they call it runners, pre-configured isolated WINE instances) for each application. Also it includes a bunch of tricks and helpers out of the box.
- ailideex 7y agoI actually have better mileage without lutris - not sure why.
- clarry 7y agoI don't understand what is so hard about WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH? Instead of a new VM, just use a new wineprefix for each application. Wintetricks works in your prefix, it doesn't take any special setup.
- classified 7y agoTo the attention of Mac users: Wine won't work on macOS Catalina 10.15 Apple is doing us no favors here, so be aware.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoCrossover works, and Wineskin + the Crossover engine works if SIP is turned off.
- ebg13 7y agoHopefully Wine 6 will find a comfortable adaptation of the CrossOver 19 method.
- m_eiman 7y agoSome more info on (part of?) the problem on the CodeWeaver blog: https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2019/12/10/celebrating-the-difficult-the-release-of-crossover-19 https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2019/12/10/ce...
- jacobush 7y agoAllegedly Apple supported Codeweavers a bit.
- zimpenfish 7y agoIs that Wine 5 that won't work on Catalina? Whilst the barest of bare anecdata, I can, e.g., run mineways.exe on Catalina 10.15.3 using wine64 4.0.2 (from homebrew) happily[1]. [1] Ok, you have to cancel the "bogus app move to bin?" prompt for both mineways.exe and vcruntime140_1.dll which is messy but I can live with that for OS emulation.
- koenigdavidmj 7y ago32 bit apps won’t work anymore. 64 are still okay.
- mrpippy 7y agoThis is not accurate. This version of Wine can’t run 32-bit Windows apps on 10.15, but 64-bit apps do run. Also, CodeWeavers CrossOver can run 32 and 64-bit apps on 10.15.
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agoHow does Wine compare to Parallels in perf for mac? Parallels doesn't support DX11 which is really painful.
- galad87 7y agoParallels Desktop 15 support DX11 on macOS 10.14.4 and later.
- mister_hn 7y agoTested playing windows games on Linux, it works amazingly stable and we'll, even at high resolutions (4K)