Posted on 01/24/2017 1:26:33 PM PST by markomalley
A brand new stable release of Wine, the Windows compatibility programme, is now available to download.
Wine 2.0 — yes, 2.0 — follows more than a year of development effort and marks the start of a new timed-based release cadence.
Various miscellaneous changes make up Wine 2.0, ranging from support for Unicode 9.0; better HiDPI scaling; improved clipboard behaviour; an updated Gecko engine; and adjustments to joystick button mapping and force feedback effects.
For gamers Wine 2.0 implements, fixes and polishes a slew of Direct3D 10/11 features, including more shader instructions, sRGB read/write support, array textures and so on, plus there are tweaks to DirectX support.
On the audio side there’s GStreamer 1.0 support, DirectSound down-mixing to stereo.
Other highlights include support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the ability to run 64-bit applications on something called macOS, say the team in their announcement.
Wine 2.0 is available to download from WineHQ right now — but you’ll need to compile it by hand.
Chances are you (like me) are too lazy to do that. Instead, to install Wine 2.0 on Ubuntu you can make use of the official Wine builds PPA.
First run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
Once added to your software sources you can can upgrade or install the latest stable release using:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine-staging
I did a little homework and found MS Updates to Office don’t work under Wine or didn’t as of the time the Wiki entry was made.
Have you tried creating a Linux VM in Windows then installing Wine there. That might create a black hole or something.
Ah, gotcha!
Marking for later consumption.
Uh, one can copy and paste the string into a “DOS Box”. No typing required.
Linux Mint
Works for me.
My mother-in-law moved from Windows to Linux Mint. She can’t stand Windows now.
It’s not an emulator, or so I hear....
Plus updates generally don’t require a recursive rebooting sequence.
I have always said that if you are going to use an intense Excel spreadsheet, you should convert it to Calc instead of running it natively. And if you have a lot of visual basic, then convert to some SQL and build an app around it.
That's what I found out in 1992 when I (minorly) hosed my first Home PC within days of getting it. It is good to have two devices and only "work" on one at a time.....
That depends on the distro. The thing is that most hold with your opinion until there comes a time where your hand gets force. That time came for me when Windows XP support ended. I began digging into Linux and found out that I could get a GUI interface like Windows and keep my XP laptops running as dual-booted platforms.
Thanks,dude! I almost fell outta my chair. Too funny.
Does it go as well with a nice Italian meal as Wine 1.0 did?
I don’t know, you better just keep drinking until it works.
Yeah, like Grandma knows how to copy & paste. You tell her that and she’s going to be rubbing a gluestick on the monitor!
yeah it’s not hard to do- i actually did mess my system up too way back when I tried linux in the 90’s too- linux was a nightmare back then- not very easy to deal with- When i ran windows- I bought an invaluable program called RollbackRx- it was like system restore on steroids- After each reformat, I would do an immediate rollBackRx snapshot- then do a bunch of customizations to get things how i liked them- then do another snapshot- If anywhere along the line I hosed the system, And believe me, back in the early 2000’s I did a lot of experimenting with programs, software experimental drivers etc- and wrecked the system more than a few times- Also, if any virus was caught, I coudl simply reboot and go into the boot menu for Rollback and restore the computer- easy peasy-
When i switched to linux- I waS sorely missing rollbackRx- then found out about systemback- which isn’t quite as easy as rollback, but it’s not too hard- almost down to just a few clicks- snapshots are quick- just 2 clicks, system restore from disk though is harder- and there’s no boot menu option to restore
another option if you only have one system is to buy a second hard-drive- install windows (or linux whichever the case may be), all your programs, and settings, updates etc- and keep it ready to go just incase- also a good idea because drives fail often-
I actually have a disk duplicator- but wow does it take forever- over 16 hours to raw copy a hard-drive- it works well- but just really slow-
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Linux Mint]]
Meh it’s still not that easy- (I use linux mint cinnamon- probably the easiest flavor)- it is much easier than it used to be, but installing programs is still confusing- especially if the software distribution program doesn’t carry it- (Systemback was such a program)- would be nice to be able to download a program, and just double click the folder and have it install like windows programs do- That would be easy- (I know the system software Mgr program is easy- but not for other programs that aren’t in there- it’s a chore sometimes for some programs still-
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