[H-GEN] Hello

[Nikolai Lusan]

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On Sat, 2023-03-11 at 17:16 +1100, Jevan Pipitone wrote:
> I switched to linux debian gnome in approximately February 2021.

Ahh the late comers 😉


> You can use "Wine" in linux, to run windows software. Everything I
> have tried 
> has worked so far, but, whether it works, partly depends on your
> computing 
> expertise, so, where it worked for me, it might not work for someone
> else.

The wine project has been around for a long time They maintain a list of
programs that have been confirmed to work and not work. 

However it is not the only way to run Windows under Linux. Other
emulation options are KVM/QEMU, and Virtualbox - these run actual MS
Windows instances. 


> So effectively I have the best of both worlds. The advantage of a
> large 
> selection of free linux software, combined with ability to run
> expensive 
> windows software when there is nothing equivalent in linux.

I would argue that using Wine is a last resort, definitely not "the best
of both worlds", and you would get better experience with Virtualbox
than Wine - KVM/QEMU I use for other purposes.


> I am still awaiting for the 'Darling' macintosh emulator, a wine
> equivalent 
> for macintosh, to support GUI applications, which it presently
> basically 
> doesn't, if they get it fully working, then I would be able to run
> macintosh 
> applications under linux debian gnome.

Again there are already KVM solutions to this, including a script that
allows you to easily install a number of pre-configured virtual
environments (including MacOS). There are other options that allow you
to run a MacOS environment in a VirtualBox VM too. With the tools to
access virtual environments allowing to share files and the clipboard
it's the best way to stably run applications. If you can't find these
things with a web search try harder 😛


> I wondered whether macintosh is prone to crashes, in which case, how
> would 
> they resolve that issue, when emulating macintosh under linux, to
> avoid linux 
> from crashing the operating system of linux, since usually linux is
> quite 
> stable, with the kinds of things i have done?

Running things in a virtual machine is a safer way the Wine, because I
have never known a VM to kill a running Linux instance. 


- -- 
Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at lusan.id.au>
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