"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.”
-- Kirkwood Smith character background babbling in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”
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
Cloning VirtualBox VMs is a swift way to to bypass software problems, but now my base system is Linux Mint and I don't have a quick way to fix it so I'll checkout your suggestions.
have you tried linux mint cinnamon? It’s pretty easy- Also try it from a DVD disk first- make an .ISO disk and it’ll run in memory- nothing installs- you can check it out without risk that way- you’ll just boot with the disk in a player- should bring up menu right away- good way to try it before deciding- I think you can even order a disk if you’re not sure how to make an ISO disk-
[[I have not had much luck with the current Wine version. Several programs I tried would not work at all or only part of the GUI would load.]]
Yup same here- ended up dual booting as a result-
yeah i love VMs for quick snapshots and restores of the VM system- Wish all operating systems were that easy to restore—
Think it will run QyickbooksPro???? I am going to give it a shot tomorrow, it is the only program I need Winblows for, yes it works in VirtualBox on Ubuntu but I would rather do it native in Linux.
well if you decide you want it- here’;s the links
Program itself : https://sourceforge.net/projects/systemback/
Install Instructions: run the commands one by one to install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemh/systemback
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install systemback
I was surprised and relieved to find that my ancient-but-beloved Borland Sidekick 99, a 16 bit Windows program, ran perfectly on Wine under Linux Mint.
"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.”
-- Kirkwood Smith character background babbling in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”
The laptop does have Linux Mint Cinnamon.
Basic functions for general programs are okay and not much different from Windows.
I want to understand the file structure and ‘under the hood’ workings. I have used Windows for 25 years and DOS before that, so I am comfortable with them and can troubleshoot most problems.
The major problem I am having right now on Mint is getting videos to play in browsers. I have tried my cable company TV channels webpages, FoxSportsPro, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, ESPN and they return errors that I need the latest Flash. The computer info says I am already running the latest Flash. Some Youtube videos will run, but I think they rely on HTML5. I have tried Koqueror, Opera, Firefox, Firefox ESR, Sea Monkey, IE in Wine, Cromium, Chrome, and none of them will work. Some do have the video window come up, but the loading icon just spends.
oh ok- yeah- it’s much more involved diving under the hood- If i were younger, I’d study it myself, but nope- getting on in years and have better thigns to do at this point lol-
Ok- You’re tom from the other htread- didn’t recognize your screen name in htis one- we discussed this there too- so I won’t bother ya by repeating- My only suggestion woudl be to try the flash plugins from the firefox repository- try the html5 one first- see if that’ll work-
Not sure beyodn that what is goign on with your video issues- Can you give a link to one that doesn’t work? I’ll see if it works with mine- probably not- but I casn at least check
The links would not be of much use because these video sites require passworded log-in through my cable provider account.
I've had better luck, compatibility-wise, with LibreOffice.
Same original (StarOffice) codebase as OpenOffice, which I used for a decade or more. But LibreOffice has surpassed OO, in my experience.
I have Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and installed Wine 2.0 a few minutes ago. Then I tried to run Caligari TruSpace 4.2, which has never run properly in Windows XP Pro or Windows 7 on VMWare or Virtual Box.
Wine complained and I had to add a missing MFC42.DLL to the program folder. I found it on a Win XP Pro disk.
Now it runs great with no issues seen at this time.
True Space is a 3D graphics program that Microsoft bought and then killed. Now I don’t have to learn Blender (a more modern and capable program).
Which is user-friendly to a degree, until you want to do something simple like right click on an icon in the start menu and find its location. Among other things.
Why IE? That is vastly inferior to Firefox if you are any kind of power user, while i have run both BPBible and The Word under Linux using Wine and they work well. Thank God.
Yabut, one doesn’t spend all day doing reboots for updates...
Yabut, one doesn’t spend all day doing reboots for updates...
Neither do i. Maybe once every 3 months, and with much customization, thank God.
oh ok- didn’t realize that- I’ve never run into a video that wouldn’t play- I get a video that does say my version is ‘out of date’ (I use firefox) but a box pops up in left hand corner- allowing me to ‘allow once’ or ‘always allow’ and i can view the video after licking that-
Or you could just port your worksheets to Google Sheets and access them from your MacBook Pro (or a Chromebook, if on a budget).
But, if you dig VMs, the way to go would be to boot native into Linux, then start up your favorite flavor of Windows in a VM and run whatever Office products you fancy. No need for Wine.
The Wine alternative allows you to skip the VM under Linux — you just start up Office on your Linux desktop, and it works. Probably best if you have Windows-based collaborators and you find that Office on Wine works for their documents. If not, the Windoze VM is your fallback solution.
Of course, if all you need is some worksheets, and you don't need compatibility with Windoze users' documents, you should consider LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
Of just use Google Sheets if you have some numbers you want to mess with.
I don’t suppose my little Rasberry PI would be a good candidate for testing.
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