When will Wine be good enough for the average person to use? One test is, "Is it good enough to let your spouse migrate to Linux from Windows?". My wife's must-have app list is roughly Microsoft Office '97 Adobe Photoshop Elements 1 Ulead PhotoImpact Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Musicmatch Jukebox 8 FamilyTreeMaker 2006 And you know what? All of those basically work except for Photoshop Elements. They need some cosmetic work, and a native DLL or two, and probably a few obscure bugfixes, but I think that's it. (I didn't test Office '97, since I expect she'll be using Crossover for that, as Codeweavers tests that app pretty well.) It's possible that by this time next year Wine will pass this test for me. - Dan
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 00:44 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
When will Wine be good enough for the average person to use? One test is, "Is it good enough to let your spouse migrate to Linux from Windows?". My wife's must-have app list is roughly
Microsoft Office '97 Adobe Photoshop Elements 1 Ulead PhotoImpact Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Musicmatch Jukebox 8 FamilyTreeMaker 2006
And you know what? All of those basically work except for Photoshop Elements. They need some cosmetic work, and a native DLL or two, and probably a few obscure bugfixes, but I think that's it. (I didn't test Office '97, since I expect she'll be using Crossover for that, as Codeweavers tests that app pretty well.)
It's possible that by this time next year Wine will pass this test for me. - Dan
That reminds me, one of the things I personally would love to see Wine support is Solidworks. It's about the only thing at work I still need to boot into Windows for occasionally. Solidworks actually installs now, it didn't earlier this year. And actually, the most recent version of wine even allows it to run about 5 seconds longer than the previous version, which is a definite improvement. =) Stephan
On 9/24/07, Stephan Rose <kermos(a)somrek.net> wrote:
That reminds me, one of the things I personally would love to see Wine support is Solidworks. It's about the only thing at work I still need to boot into Windows for occasionally.
Same here.
Solidworks actually installs now, it didn't earlier this year. And actually, the most recent version of wine even allows it to run about 5 seconds longer than the previous version, which is a definite improvement. =)
Which version(s) are you using? Could you please update the AppDB? --tim
On 9/23/07, Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote:
When will Wine be good enough for the average person to use? One test is, "Is it good enough to let your spouse migrate to Linux from Windows?". My wife's must-have app list is roughly
Microsoft Office '97 Adobe Photoshop Elements 1 Ulead PhotoImpact Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Musicmatch Jukebox 8 FamilyTreeMaker 2006
And you know what? All of those basically work except for Photoshop Elements. They need some cosmetic work, and a native DLL or two, and probably a few obscure bugfixes, but I think that's it. (I didn't test Office '97, since I expect she'll be using Crossover for that, as Codeweavers tests that app pretty well.)
It's possible that by this time next year Wine will pass this test for me. - Dan
I suppose this past week Wine has passed the "poor student test" for me. I needed to make circuit diagrams and have a windows 95 program called circuit maker provided by the school. Well I had a backup of my git tree on my laptop from a few weeks ago, compiled it, ran wineprefixcreate, installed the program, and created the circuit diagram all without leaving the library! I've already used it again to simulate a circuit and do another report. Now if only I could get a better internet connection. Jesse
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