Re: “KDE For Windows 10 Exiles” Campaign

On Fri, 6/6/2025 6:24 AM, Daniel70 wrote:

On 6/06/2025 10:36 am, T wrote:

On 6/5/25 4:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

 
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I do use GNU Cash.  It is has a bloody difficult learning curve,
but once you get there, it is a wonderful tool.  I can't see
any of my customer abandoning QuickBooks (a Linux killer) for it.
Too much "new" to learn.
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You can run Windows programs in Linux with the Wine application layer,
but Wine is alpha stage code at best.

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It seems to be good enough to run the majority of Windows-specific games
on the Steam Deck. That product has created a whole new market category,
handheld PC gaming, where the Windows-based competitors are really
struggling to gain a foothold.
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And, you have to admit, games are among the most difficult things to run
properly under an emulator.

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Wine is actually an application layer.  They get their nickers
in a twist if you call it an emulator.  Chuckle.
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T, what would be the possibility of setting your customers up to use Linux .... and then, for those 'special' programs (like QuickBooks) giving your customers a desktop icon called 'QuickBooks' which actually boots Wine and opens 'QuickBooks'??
 
Sure, it could end up with several copies of Wine running, each operating different Windows programs but it would be "DO"able, wouldn't it??

Commercial softwares use licensing mechanisms.
Those mechanisms aren't always compatible with WINE.

One guy wrote a piece of software, the software could
detect exactly where it was, whether it was in a VM,
under WINE, on native hardware. In fact, the location
capability it had at the time, was more impressive than
the software it was protecting.

WINE is not intended to defeat license mechanisms. Via
DMCA, you could find yourself in jail doing that. As
a consequence, there is a very fine line to tread, to
avoiding "trouble".

   Paul