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Okay sure. Just let me buy Photoshop for Linux and... oh wait, your solution doesn't work at all, you fucking moron.

Looks like it works to me.
http://appdb.winehq.org/object...

That said, photoshop was not listed as a requirement. Few people need/want it anway. GGP's post didn't mention it at all.
Seems like it's just a lot of bitching with absolutely no effort to avoid the root cause. Like someone bitching about who gets elected but never bothing to even register to vote.

Want an alternative? Put your money and effort into alternatives.
Want to continue to be treated like a sheep? Just keep bleating and follow along.

FWIW, the Nvidia proprietary drivers have had a shader cache on Linux since the 290.03 release in late 2011 (search for GLShaderDiskCache). It probably helps Mass Effect 2 under Wine somewhat (here's a bug report from before the cache was added to the driver: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bu... )

Then use onenote. Of course you'll then be tied down to a specific application and even (as I seemingly trollishly demonstrated above) to a specific operating system!

I believe OneNote is available for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Win Phone, and Linux if installed the right way: https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...

Not really tying you to one OS. Plus you can export in open formats - PDF, XPS and HTML at least.

Should I want to reference a document, presentation, audio, video or something else in a text file, I just record the file location. OK not embedded, but I haven't found this to be problematic, especially if I group things into folders.

Linking and embedding are different techniques with pros and cons, something like OneNote allows you to use either (or both) as appropriate rather than be tied down to a specific one. Guess you probably never, ever, move, rename, or edit your referenced files, and never want to put annotations over your referenced image, and never need to search your notes including the not-embedded references (or are happy to open up each reference and search it separately). For other users who do have some of those requirements, text files won't cut it.

http://appdb.winehq.org/object...

Yep, I feel the same way about STO, I'd play it more except it doesn't work very well under Wine now.

I'm experiencing the symptoms descibed in the Performance Degradation subthread:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...

A couple of months ago, I was getting annoyed by the ugliness of my "golf ball" Olympic Research Science Vessel,

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Resea...

so I ponied up some cash for some points to get a Nebula.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Advan...

While the nebula did have a few advantages over the RSV, the ensign slot is generic and has more crew/hull and another engineering console slot (and the Tachyon console) , but it loses serious maneuverability, it turns like a brick. Which is why you need the extra hull. So it's not like you're paying to win with it.

Then again, it is not ugly.

Now once I reached captain, I was quite happy with the default Intrepid.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Long_...

Course, everyone loves the Intrepid.

Buy a cheap tablet or iPod Touch and use it for just this purpose

If I understand correctly, I'd need to use iTunes software to manage an iPod. According to AppDB, Wine gained support for at least some of iTunes sometime in the past four months (between 1.7.5 and 1.7.15), but I'm not so sure this support includes connecting to an iPod over USB. The compatibility report states that connecting an iPod was not tested.

or at least related purposes.

Looking down to switch among these "related purposes" takes my eyes off the TV screen.

Then it must have changed very recently: garbage in 1.7.5 (December 2013), gold in 1.7.15 (April 2014). I wonder what breaking change Apple will introduce in the next version.

Great minds think alike. Came here to post this.

Yes, great minds think alike.

Other minds think there's still DOS in the core of Windows, rather than a bag on the side to run old DOS programs, sort of like the VDM in Wine. Srsly, the late '90's called, they want their "Windows is still a hack on top of DOS" meme back.

Could this be of use to the Winelib project?

(As the name implies, it's the compile-time analogue of Wine.)

Probably not. The wine guys tend to be more or less anti toward anything that they didn't write and thus can assert that it's not infringement on Microsoft's source code. Accepting that much code from Valve sounds very risky for them.

Could this be of use to the Winelib project?

(As the name implies, it's the compile-time analogue of Wine.)

If you're talking about the Broderbund Printshop software, it works quite well under Wine.

http://appdb.winehq.org/object...

Second this. Quite a number of my old games stopped working on Win7, but were fine on WinXP. (E.g. Worms, etc.)

Ironically, they all worked fine -- ALL OF THEM -- on a Mac under OSX via WINE. But for the life of me I can't get them to work under Windows anymore, even in that so-called XP compatibility mode.

Yes, It works! (TM)
Running win8 ARM PEs also works.

Yes, It works! (TM)
Running win8 ARM PEs also works.

If you look at this page its suppose too but I guess it depends on which version you got : http://appdb.winehq.org/object...

The first rule about Wine is, Wine Is Not an Emulator

My statement didn't preclude client-side encryption, in fact if you read the passage I quoted I explicitly said you would encrypt it anyway.

You said "you would encrypt it anyway" which as stated implies a manual operation, while client-side encryption is transparent. Furthermore you did say "if you want "cloud storage" you can't guarantee that data will always be private no matter who you host it with" which is wrong: if your cloud storage solution performs client-side encryption then that's a garantee your data will be private.

I didn't say you have to compete on features, you need to compete in all areas to build products that people actually want to use, or you can just continue the defeatist attitude and lament your view that even if you did build something decent nobody would use it...maybe that's why those products suck so much.

You did not say they "have to" but you said they "need to", pretty much the same, and implied that would be sufficient (and that they are idiots and somehow not doing so (I cannot really blame you if you sometimes get that feeling)). All I'm doing is pointing the harsh reality which is not the same as being a defeatist (I would not be working on Wine if I were).

iTunes does not run on open-source operating systems (even with Wine) so VMs don't help one bit. Running iTunes requires buying Windows or an Apple computer

errr...a VM is a Virtual Machine, you don't have to buy a Windows or Apple computer, you can run Windows in a VM on a linux system if you like, or thanks to the lack of DRM you can use any Windows or OSX system to download the songs and then copy them to wherever you want.

That is really lame, if you're ultra-paranoid just run it in a VM and delete it once the tracks are downloaded. The upshot is you can get DRM-free music and not be beholden to Apple at all.

iTunes does not run on open-source operating systems (even with Wine) so VMs don't help one bit. Running iTunes requires buying Windows or an Apple computer

No Mac client, but it appears to work satisfactorily in Wine.

I'm not familiar with EAC, but I did catch the bit about moving away from XP. That is why I mentioned wine. Wine supports some software better than others, and EAC seems to work well. (Now that I look in their database, it appears that Polderbits is not listed, so all bets are off.) Are you acquainted with Wine?

Based on your description, it seems like Polderbits would suit your needs better than EAC since it is designed for the purpose of archiving analog audio, while EAC seems geared towards digital audio. It may be that neither one can be made to work well under Linux, but it sounded like you were interested in possibilities, so I shared the one that came to mind. YMMV.

I'm not familiar with EAC, but I did catch the bit about moving away from XP. That is why I mentioned wine. Wine supports some software better than others, and EAC seems to work well. (Now that I look in their database, it appears that Polderbits is not listed, so all bets are off.) Are you acquainted with Wine?

Based on your description, it seems like Polderbits would suit your needs better than EAC since it is designed for the purpose of archiving analog audio, while EAC seems geared towards digital audio. It may be that neither one can be made to work well under Linux, but it sounded like you were interested in possibilities, so I shared the one that came to mind. YMMV.

Isn't this the wine project icon?

Please don't whine about how much wine it takes to run Wine!

You can run most .NET apps in WINE? http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2586

Context: http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.6

Linux already has XP built into it. It isn't perfect, but for your purposes it will work fine and you don't need that machine anymore!

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=17886

Ritepen, since bought by EverNote is quite good. Older versions seem to work in Wine:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4444

Lets take a look at some common desktop publishing apps.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=342

Oh look quark express is rated as "garbage" on Wine. Thats OK, we'll try a few others:
Microsoft publisher:Garbage
Adobe InDesign: Garbage (unless you want to use a fairly old version)

Other categories:
Microsoft Outlook: Silver (some things are broken)
Adobe Dreamweaver: Silver. To be fair, its only issue is "Sometimes crashes when creating a site. Installer doesn't work."
Adobe Photoshop: Garbage

What an impressive showing, Im sure your IT department would green light that immediately.

Lets take a look at some common desktop publishing apps.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=342

Oh look quark express is rated as "garbage" on Wine. Thats OK, we'll try a few others:
Microsoft publisher:Garbage
Adobe InDesign: Garbage (unless you want to use a fairly old version)

Other categories:
Microsoft Outlook: Silver (some things are broken)
Adobe Dreamweaver: Silver. To be fair, its only issue is "Sometimes crashes when creating a site. Installer doesn't work."
Adobe Photoshop: Garbage

What an impressive showing, Im sure your IT department would green light that immediately.

Lets take a look at some common desktop publishing apps.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=342

Oh look quark express is rated as "garbage" on Wine. Thats OK, we'll try a few others:
Microsoft publisher:Garbage
Adobe InDesign: Garbage (unless you want to use a fairly old version)

Other categories:
Microsoft Outlook: Silver (some things are broken)
Adobe Dreamweaver: Silver. To be fair, its only issue is "Sometimes crashes when creating a site. Installer doesn't work."
Adobe Photoshop: Garbage

What an impressive showing, Im sure your IT department would green light that immediately.

Lets take a look at some common desktop publishing apps.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=342

Oh look quark express is rated as "garbage" on Wine. Thats OK, we'll try a few others:
Microsoft publisher:Garbage
Adobe InDesign: Garbage (unless you want to use a fairly old version)

Other categories:
Microsoft Outlook: Silver (some things are broken)
Adobe Dreamweaver: Silver. To be fair, its only issue is "Sometimes crashes when creating a site. Installer doesn't work."
Adobe Photoshop: Garbage

What an impressive showing, Im sure your IT department would green light that immediately.

Lets take a look at some common desktop publishing apps.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=342

Oh look quark express is rated as "garbage" on Wine. Thats OK, we'll try a few others:
Microsoft publisher:Garbage
Adobe InDesign: Garbage (unless you want to use a fairly old version)

Other categories:
Microsoft Outlook: Silver (some things are broken)
Adobe Dreamweaver: Silver. To be fair, its only issue is "Sometimes crashes when creating a site. Installer doesn't work."
Adobe Photoshop: Garbage

What an impressive showing, Im sure your IT department would green light that immediately.

Lets take a look at some common desktop publishing apps.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=342

Oh look quark express is rated as "garbage" on Wine. Thats OK, we'll try a few others:
Microsoft publisher:Garbage
Adobe InDesign: Garbage (unless you want to use a fairly old version)

Other categories:
Microsoft Outlook: Silver (some things are broken)
Adobe Dreamweaver: Silver. To be fair, its only issue is "Sometimes crashes when creating a site. Installer doesn't work."
Adobe Photoshop: Garbage

What an impressive showing, Im sure your IT department would green light that immediately.

Right now, there are vanishingly few games available, and basically all of them indy titles.

Lots of games can be played in Linux. Ever heard of Wine?

Running something under wine does not qualify as runnable under Linux.

From the point of view of Linux and X11, Wine is an executable format (PE) and a UI toolkit (like GTK+ and Qt and GNUstep and SDL). It's not like Wine is an emulator or anything. If an application that works in a free reimplementation of the Win32 API isn't "runnable under Linux", then an application made with GNUstep isn't "runnable under Linux" either because GNUstep is a free reimplementation of the API now called Cocoa.

Plus, I the distro I use doesn't support wine on a 64-bit platform yet.

Then your distribution is broken, and you may want to build Wine from source in a 32-bit chroot.

Alternatively they can give you the iTunes store page where you can see an artist and track name with a link to download iTunes next to it.

Last time I checked a database of how applications behave in a freely licensed reimplementation of the Windows API, iTunes would always fail to launch, complaining that it needed to be reinstalled. So Google would also have to give a link to buy a copy of genuine Microsoft Windows 8 on which to run iTunes in VirtualBox. Otherwise, the Whac-a-Mole game of blocking illicit music downloads would just be replaced with the Whac-a-Mole game of blocking illicit Windows operating system downloads.

I had the same thought. Photoshop 7.0 (runs great through wine) fulfills all my photo-editing needs. I did pull up a changelog for a recent version of Photoshop, and it *does* appear to have some nice new features, but probably not worth the price for most people.

All I have to do is get it to run with WINE.

you wish. you still need a license: http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=25645
doing otherwise is a criminal offense. wtf are you talking about! :-P

Go back to high school and finish your education. Seriously.

it's ad hominem time already? ok. well i didn't finish high school, and i'm afraid i won't finish my education either. not in my life. at least i hope so, but sorry about you :'(

If Microsoft had given away Windows for free, and included the source, and put it all under a license which made it possible to create your own derivative without being beholden to Microsoft in any way... the most likely outcome would have been the replacement of wine and a possible 'Windows shell' on top of X11 or even an alternative graphics environment based on GDI. I don't think those who chose Linux - or any other unix - would deem the Windows kernel to be a suitable replacement. I know I would not have felt this, nor do I still.

I don't think other vendors would have complained like Microsoft and its gang are complaining now. Complaining about Google giving away Android is a bit like complaining about Sinterklaas or Santa Claus or jultomten giving presents to children by claiming this to be a nefarious scheme for the little brats to start believing in gods or the supernatural. Yes, there will be people who make this claim. No, they are generally not taken seriously.

Games are an interesting problem but that's being addressed by Valve.

Valve's working on it, but there's on so much they can do. They only have indirect say over what platforms other publishers wirte for (unless they overextend their hand even for them, I suspect), and even if they can convince publishers to start writing Linux versions, there's still an enormous backlog of Windows- or Windows/Mac-only games that probably won't even be ported.

I am quite happy for what Valve is doing, but I am also quite skeptical about "the year of Linux on the desktop" for a while longer. At least unless they've got something else up their sleeve like a much better Wine layer. At least for me, even if all future games were cross platform I have quite a lot of backlog to play through before I drop Windows.

That's why you can't name drop any of them, in stark contrast to perhaps to a single video,audio, or CAD tool that costs more than you are willing to spend.

I've bought two versions of Lightroom and will probably buy more. Most entries on the Wine Application Compatibility DB for it are "garbage". Even the couple entries that are higher certainly don't sound it to me; the ratings on the appdb have always seemed very soft. (e.g. a bronze rating where "Viewing pictures in Library/Develop (invisible)" does not work... that's primary functionality! How does something where the program basically doesn't work get a bronze rating?)

True story: I once had to deal with Dioblo II in WINE repeatedly corrupting my MBR. No, really. I could hardly believe it myself until I saw other reports of the exact same thing on the WINE bug tracker.

Bullshit.

ORLY: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4672

No, MS Office is not extremely stable on Wine. For example, check out the AppDB for MS Word here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=10

For example, I could never view the C files in the Windows API. Maybe that's changed? I can view them at WINE now, but these are WINE's implementations for allowing Windows programs on Linux. Can I vew the Microsoft implementations for these methods as easily? In C#, can I vew the base library's code? (Not just the declarations.) I honestly don't know the answers here; that's why I'm asking. And yes, I can debug the assembly, but seeing the code at a library level in Java has really saved my ass at times (and one time I found a bug and reported it which actually got fixed somehow... that was back when Sun owned it though).

I won't go into all of the arguments for why I don't use MS-based languages. I probably shouldn't have brought it up because I don't wish to start a flamewar haha. For the above, all I'm saying is that I got burned, and at one point, I even gave them a 2nd chance. But now, for me, it's over with them.

+1 VMs. Also, Wine has pretty decent support for Photoshop CS2.

steam for games

Steam for Linux Beta Now Available to All

Open Office as a good-enough-replacement for MS office

OpenOffice is as good as dead. Use LibreOffice

it will need lightroom 4 working

I can't commetn here, but outlook not so good


M.

Software - not that much. Does it run in wine?

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/planescape_torment DRM free, it appears

http://thunderpeel2001.blogspot.com/2009/01/planescape-torment-fully-modded.html

Platinum rating running under Wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=294

If you're ok with 90s graphics and the fact that this is much more an interactive novel than hack n slash, there's absolutely no reason not to check it out.

Enjoy your one frame per second!

I believe in proper ports, using cross-platform tools. In fact with Windows is becoming just another platform. Its simply less of an issue, but to suggest Wine is slower when its often faster is really strange.

http://wiki.winehq.org/Debunking_Wine_Myths

I've given you a link to show how misinformed you are. I suggest you spend a little time getting informed