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I can't imagine trying to keep junky accounting and business software that is prone to breaking running on wine. Wine is great, but I dont want to add extra thi

• freedomben 4y ago
  There are cloud-based SaaS alternatives to most of that stuff now. I much prefer a locally installed application myself, but the world is definitely headed toward a perpetual rental/subscription model. If I'm going to be paying rent for my software anyway, the convenience of SaaS is hard to pass up. Re: wine though, I agree that would be nightmare, but nice thing about deploying as a business is once you get a working image together you can deploy it out to everyone, and only bring in patches that are tested/working. After the initial effort I don't think it would be much more labor intensive than managing windows updates.
• oynqr 4y ago
  Wine is probably a more stable target than Windows.