I fell immediately for Zorin because it looked even cooler than Windows and yet any Windows user could find his way in it immediately. I liked the dock very much. Less interesting was the brightness which made it tiring for the eyes and it seemed to ask for much power to run.

how is that awesome they just made a linux distribution

jawad mansoor ... As a doctor of philosophy perhaps you could enlighten us as to why you made a random self aggrandising reply to a KZfaq comment about some guys who wrote a Linux distribution

a more fun fact: i guess they modified a linux distro and tweaked it. anyone can take any kind of linux and rebrand it. why? because it is free open source.

holy shit!😲

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Indeed, that's probably why I watched and learned all the way through. Good work.

I was born in the end of 90's, so i don't know that science programs. But, that guy explanation are easy to understand, i like it :)

Must be him. I mean look at him. He looks like stuck in the 1980's. His clothes, his spectacles, his hair, and his passion for computers.

I missed out on those times, but as a younger viewer I can agree, this is great content!

Now this is so true! :)

At any rate, if something doesn't work with wine or playonlinux and similar, we can always do something else like finding a native linux version of the program or a native linux program that does exactly the same or use a virtual machine running windows XP or Windows 7. I think it's more complex than "making it wine compatible" but wine developers making sure they have put all the required features. For example, I am playing StarCraft and StarCraft II using PlayOnLinux, but I have to select Windows XP or Windows 2003 behavior for Blizzard App to display stuff correctly, otherwise it doesn't work well, (it seems it's not well refined in other windows versions) Also, all 64 bit versions of wine simply made Blizzard App crash, so I had to use the 32 bit versions of wine staging. I had to go through hell to figure all that out.

+Animal Facts, Rather then having software developers create products with compatibility for Wine, I would prefer more cross-platform (ie Mac OS, RPM and Deb based Linux compatibility).

+Mark Edworthy ... I agree wholeheartedly, but Wine compatibility would be a step toward gaining critical mass in the number of people using Linux Desktops.

Most certainly true. Yet, developers don't seem to care. For example, some Blizzard users have been asking for cross platform versions (or linux versions) of their games for many many years (I think I have seen posts in their forums from 2012 ) but they have not done anything in all these years.

Excellent --good luck! :)

I had been in the same position for some time before working on this video! Wine is an eye-opener. It does not always work. But it is easy to experiment with, and can be very useful.

I think installing windows in a virtual machine is a better solution than than using wine.

Clarissa Chan well I tried both and a virtual machine in my case is way better. I just said that so other ppl can try it out and judge for themselves.

For windows applications, virtual machine is near perfect solution.

ExplainingComputers There's always AppDB on WineHQ that would help with getting a guideline of what works and what doesn't, though it's not perfect either - some test results are very old and are contributed by volunteers. (as far as I know)

Thanks! :)

Thanks.

Greetings! :)

Thanks for this. Totally agree on normally clicking "Yes" and restarting. But highly inconvenient when making a video and having to reset an HDMI recorder and potentially having to uninstall everything in this video segment and start again! :)

Ah, I see. Thanks for this.

It falls back to Mate desktop layout.

@@Xeno_Bardock Mate is based on old gnome

Only if they're not white and/or male, lol. Then it's not only illegal but it's just plain "racist" and/or "sexist" too. :-P

loool

Haha! I was about to quote this too.

we cover a person this is illegal - that is con greet!

Thanks.

Very tricky indeed -- there are no optimal solutions now.

Thanks.

And this has been possible, with some adaptations and adjustments, for several years now. Linux has become a very robust platform.

It's becoming possible to run Microsoft Office 2003 on Wine 2.0.3 as well. And Wine Stable is at 3.0 now

@@ClaireAzi have you tried using libreoffice?

@@KD-xp4di of course.

@@KD-xp4di i like libre office it comes with everything that Office Professional comes with and most all its FREE!

Sound on Linux can be complicated. In a lot of places I'd even say rough, or unfinished. Development can be frustratingly slow at times, or at a standstill. How well sound works is often also down to what hardware you have. If you really invest yourself into getting things to work you can still achieve some impressive sound related things in Linux though. But it isn't always point, click, and shoot.

Michael Ulmer TBH i think this is the main reason Linux desktop is not widely adopted by normal users. Microsoft Office, i read a comment somewhere that Wine 3.0 may support MS Office 2003 lol.

I have found that Libre Office can do everything Office does.

Hounddog Qix Here's a hint. Try classical solitaire on Windows 10. Refuses to run, needs cracking. Then any Windows update deletes it. Why? To have you pay for the Windows Store version.

True, but I'm talking about non-MS software like all the crap EA, Activation and other crap companies that developed/published games. I remember when Win 2000 came out, people were really upset because all the software they bought over the years wouldn't run on it at release (because NT wasn't compatible with 9x at that time). So their response was Windows ME (their worst ever OS). Then XP finally hit and because it had a good amount of backwards compatibility, folks were happy. Then Vista happened (for different reasons) so they were forced to do Win 7 (which was really good), then Win 8 happened (and everyone hated it), then Windows 10... ugh.. I hate Microsoft. I love my Linux setup but I still have to keep windows around for all the crap I bought in the past that doesn't run too good on WINE. One more off topic rant... When the hell will we get Ubuntu phones? They've had them in Europe and so far hasn't made it to the States (don't even dare call Android 'Linux' lol). Be nice to have access to terminal anywhere at anytime in my pocket.

To be fair to MS, they're not technically removing it. What happens is the old Windows install is completely moved and a fresh install of the new version is put in place. Non-Microsoft Software shouldn't be there anyway, and it's a great way to clean up current infections and/or leftovers from old infections. The same is done for the Users folder, then the individual users get imported into the new install. The real problem is twofold. One is MS dropped the games in the first place, despite being a part of the OS since the Windows 3.0 days. The other is there's so much hardcoded in them that they'll only work if you put them in Program Folders. The upshot is that you have to reinstall them 2-3 times a year, after every major Windows upgrade. It would be a different story if regular updates or Defender was removing them, but there's no sign that'll happen.

Ubuntu Phone is dead since when Canonical dropped Unity development

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Yes, as I now understand. Thanks. :)

Thanks.

Your welcome, cheers Peter

True on the catch-up thing.

vmware player runs well with nvidia, I'm not sure amd cards or amd mesa drivers.

If you use QEMU instead of VirtualBox, you can get near native performance in Windows VM on Linux www.unixmen.com/how-to-install-and-configure-qemu-in-ubuntu/ Here's how fast it is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jd1iq9Op0M7NpJ8.html

Many thanks. :)

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Sounds like plebbitors

@MoolsDogTwo Wine - ception lol

Who needs win when you can run everything in a VM, even games, with native performance.

don't criticize him - he is a very good person. He told me all about the phyton2 and i learnd programm to this videos in 2weeks! He is a Super teacher.

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Thanks. :)

Let's be real, we're still dependent on Windows programs, reason for this video

Thanks.

Excellent to hear! Glad it worked.

So can you use this to access windows programs from within Linux, or do you have to keep switching between OSs?

@@chuctanundaspiderbone5407 Windows runs in a separate "window" within the VM (Virtual Machine) once you start up the VM. You would install the Windows programs within the VM just as you would install them on a Windows PC.

I had an older Win 7 PC sitting in the corner for a year and a half; it had been superseded by our "new" refurbished Win 10 Pro PC. I wiped the old PC's hard drive with DBAN and installed Linux Mint. I then installed VirtualBox, set up a VM and then installed Win 10 to the VM. The install process accepted our old Win 7 Home registration code and permitted me to install Win 10 Home. I then installed a licensed copy of Microsoft 365 (FKA Microsoft Office) to the VM. I started doing this Linux business about a month ago because I had read that the install process for Windows 11 (which I want to check out once it comes out) does not check hardware requirements if you are installing it in a VM. Our old PC has a 4th-generation i5 and our newer PC has a 4th-generation i7 so neither one meets the Windows 11 system requirements. So I figured OK, perfect use for our old PC. Additionally, I get to play with Linux and it's nice to have a second machine around the house. It's also perfect for my wife since almost all she does on a PC is check email and go on the Internet. We already were using Thunderbird for email on the new PC so having it on the Linux PC was a bonus. I set up Thunderbird on each PC so that messages are left on the ISP's server for 100 days so we can download messages to each PC without one PC interfering with the other. Also, the database for our password manager, KeePass, is in the same format as that used by KeePass XC that I installed on the Linux PC so I just copied the database file from the new PC to the old PC. I just have to make sure that whenever I make changes or additions on KeePass that I copy the database file again back to the Linux PC so that they're in sync (KeePass does not store passwords in the cloud).

But the host might get a bit slow, and there might be some virtualization issues.

ARRRRRRRRRRRR A pirates life for me!!!

Except you can't completely disable telemetry even on Windows 10 Enterprise, you can only set it to 0 Security in gpedit but not completely disable telemetry. The only way is to jail Windows 10 to VirtualBox or VMWare on Linux and keep Windows 10 VM disconnected from the internet.

Mystic Bardock LSSGSS What about filtering the the guest's traffic with a firewall or entries in the host's hosts file if you must have Internet connections on Windows guests?

MS ignores its own hosts file when it comes to their servers. The way around it is to use PeerBlock, pfSense, 3rd party antivirus firewall or if the Windows is in VirtualBox on Linux, keep Windows VM disconnected from internet or add MS servers to /etc/hosts file on Linux.

Mystic Bardock LSSGSS That's what I meant - putting MS servers on the hosts file for the Linux host to prevent the Windows guest from phoning home. ;P Though I eventually want to experiment with having a virtualized pfSense firewall and redirect all traffic to that running on a Proxmox host (AFAIK based on Debian)

Very helpful, thanks.

Uhm can I use Gallium Nine with PlayOnLinux Wine Staging? If so, is there any tutorial on how to do it?

I'm not a PlayOnLinux user, but you might be able to later configure the prefix that the tool creates to enable Gallium Nine support through winecfg.

I can see latest Wine Staging in PlayOnLinux Manage Wine Versions but not Gallium Nine. I wonder why, maybe you should suggest developers on PlayOnLinux forum to add Gallium Nine.

www.maketecheasier.com/install-wine-gallium-nine-linux/