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I feel like Windows is a lost cause with current capabilities of Proton and Wine on Linux. It will be possible to run almost all Windows software on Linux with
by DethNinja 4y ago
I feel like Windows is a lost cause with current capabilities of Proton and Wine on Linux. It will be possible to run almost all Windows software on Linux with even better security probably in couple of years.
- rkagerer 4y agoI wish SolidWorks was included in that.
- herbst 4y agoHey I thought exactly that 15 years ago when wine got a major update. I never looked back :)
- ajb 4y agoI wish, but Wine is not a kernel. My one use case for Windows is my Fujitsu scan snap, because the SW is better than the Linux scanning SW which is rather basic. But it seems like wine will never support it because it can't run device drivers.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoThis use case seems like it’d be taken care of pretty well by a VM running the requisite version of Windows, since VMs have USB passthrough. Years ago when Windows-only peripherals were more common I did this on my macs.
- ajb 4y agoYes, I used to have a VM of Windows, at one point they were trying to attract devs and sold a VM licence for $25. But it stopped working when I changed computers (I think that was outside the terms) and now a legitimate VM licence is much more unless you go for a dodgy OEM key. Coincidentally I just tried again today and the scanning story on Ubuntu has improved a bit . Setup is still a bitch but once it's there it's almost as productive as scanning on windows.
- pjmlp 4y agoAnother one that has missed on OS/2.