Postby blacknblue » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:44 am
So far I have been trying out random Windows programs with no particular rhyme or reason. I have not found anything that does not work as well or better on Wine 1.10 than it does on Vista. But I have not tried anything like Office 2008, or the latest Photoshop, or AutoCAD. I just don't own those. I have tried things like a variety of popular games, and several word processors, and several utilities. I have also tried several music and video players.
Thing is, a lot of it is redundant since the programs I am trying out already have a Linux version. Like Open Office. It has versions out for every OS under the sun already. Same for most of the music players, cd burning software, etc. They already have Linux versions out there. The games work fine of course, but they have been working fine on Wine for a long time already.
There is nothing I do that doesn't already have versions in both Windows and Linux. Word processing I do in OpenOffice or AbiWord when I need to output in MS Word format. Otherwise I use something called RoughDraft and output in RTF. RoughDraft works fine in Wine. For graphics and photoediting I use Gimp or one of the other opensource tools out there. But usually Gimp. Available in both Windows and Linux. For CAD work I use Qcad. Available in both Windows and Linux. For music or movies I use wither VLC (both Windows and Linux) or one of the thousand other free programs out there. For cd/dvd burning I use K3B in Linux and any of fifty or sixty different free options in Windows. But K3B in Linux works better than any free program in Windows.
I just don't have any practical use for Windows anymore. Even if I was still doing engineering work, I get the impression that there are more specialized engineering packages available for Linux/Unix than there are for Windows now.
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