arstechnica.com— Improvements to Wine sponsored by Google have made it possible to run Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux.
Feb 19, 2008View in Crawl 4
Well, it's one step further away from total lock-in. If (and I'm not suggesting this is about to happen) WINE users started to become a large proportion of, say, Photoshop users, then Adobe could well sit up and take notice and release a native version. Then, you can complain directly to them about hardware support.Alternatively, more people running Linux *in general* means that the alternatives such as the GIMP improve to a level where they become useful for a greater proportion of current Photoshop users (personally it's more than enough for my needs, but clearly in some people's perception, whether founded or unfounded, it is not enough for them.) Then you can have happy times with your PowerPC and/or toaster running image manipulation software for sure.
Seriously, get a clue. Hate MS all you want. Visual Studio is by far the best IDE on the market.It would also be great to be able to debug mono/.net apps under Linux. Sadly, Monodevelop doesn't currently support debugging.
1. Because much of windows internals are not documented or not documented well. Yes, there is a wide library of up to date docs, but they are not always completely correct, and they don't always provide in depth explanations.2. Not to split hairs, but Google does have is own OS, its just private :) Anyways, I got your point. Maybe it did go over my head. But i do know that Microsoft and Google are competing, in some sense.
w00t! I just realized the newest wine in fact handles this.Google SketchUp seems to be working fine, with a single tap to the registry (the hwok reg key or something like that must be swapped to one.)
ratripFeb 19, 2008
Nice promise, from somebody who is too busy to screw around :P
mvent2Feb 20, 2008
He's too young to have alcohol so he doesn't get the joke.
Closed AccountFeb 20, 2008
Well, it's one step further away from total lock-in. If (and I'm not suggesting this is about to happen) WINE users started to become a large proportion of, say, Photoshop users, then Adobe could well sit up and take notice and release a native version. Then, you can complain directly to them about hardware support.Alternatively, more people running Linux *in general* means that the alternatives such as the GIMP improve to a level where they become useful for a greater proportion of current Photoshop users (personally it's more than enough for my needs, but clearly in some people's perception, whether founded or unfounded, it is not enough for them.) Then you can have happy times with your PowerPC and/or toaster running image manipulation software for sure.
Closed AccountFeb 20, 2008
Seriously, get a clue. Hate MS all you want. Visual Studio is by far the best IDE on the market.It would also be great to be able to debug mono/.net apps under Linux. Sadly, Monodevelop doesn't currently support debugging.
srg13Feb 21, 2008
Was it "Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!!" ???
mrsteveman1Feb 23, 2008
Google Picasa is not a native app, it is a win32 app compiled with the winelibs into a native binary format, ELF. It is still a windows app.
Closed AccountFeb 23, 2008
1. Because much of windows internals are not documented or not documented well. Yes, there is a wide library of up to date docs, but they are not always completely correct, and they don't always provide in depth explanations.2. Not to split hairs, but Google does have is own OS, its just private :) Anyways, I got your point. Maybe it did go over my head. But i do know that Microsoft and Google are competing, in some sense.
Closed AccountFeb 27, 2008
w00t! I just realized the newest wine in fact handles this.Google SketchUp seems to be working fine, with a single tap to the registry (the hwok reg key or something like that must be swapped to one.)
Closed AccountMar 15, 2008
Yeah, you keep trying to debug your memory leaks and corrupt pointers. I've got real work to do.
dudley9May 25, 2008
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