This guy reminds me of the science tv programs we had back in the early 80's.. This guy is so cool!!! Thanks for all your videos!

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

:)

@totaltwit

4 жыл бұрын

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

@irfanazhari6134

3 жыл бұрын

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 :)

@giocabral9903

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@mattmurphy1065

3 жыл бұрын

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

Fun fact: Zorin OS was created 8 years ago by two brothers (surname Zorin) who had no programming experience and made the first version in just 9 months. They were 12 and 14 years old !

@jean-pierredevent970

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-vk1id3fq4r

4 жыл бұрын

how is that awesome they just made a linux distribution

@kohnjelly

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Xanixade

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@elcan6426

4 жыл бұрын

holy shit!😲

If software developers would at least make sure their products were Wine compatible, the world would be a better place.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Now this is so true! :)

@JosueC730

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@medworthy

6 жыл бұрын

+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).

@AnimalFacts

6 жыл бұрын

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

@JosueC730

6 жыл бұрын

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. That's given me some helpful clues on how to get out of the W11 pit

I went from WindowsXP to Linux Mint 17.2, I'm still using the same install from almost 2 years ago and never looked back (and haven’t broken the install). I ditched all windows based apps and now use the Linux alternatives such as Gimp, InkScape, and of course Blender being a native Linux App already. My system is used to produce complex 3D content and renderings, I also have steam with a few AAA titles that run perfectly fine. I'm not a distro hopper nor am I a distro fanboy, I simply use what works out of the box, with the maximum amount of support, after all I am simply a Linux user not a Linux expert.

YOU have inspired me to expand my TESTING of Wine and Crossover using MINT. As a long time user of WINDOWS I am trying to cut the cord and sharing Linux with bright students using refurbished Pc's that are donated or purchased for under $58.00 but fully functional. Thanks for ALL your educational help and experience.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Excellent --good luck! :)

Chris is right of course that Wine is not a panacea, but I would note that it can work wonders, even if it is a bear to get a program running. The issues of "mimicking" a specific Direct X version can be sketchy, but I've also seen a windows client run BETTER on a Linux wine install than on a MORE POWERFUL hardware machine running Win 7 x64. When it comes to things like real performance Linux isn't just a good OS, when compared to MS Gatesware, Linux is a GREAT OS.

17:05 "I don't particularly like the way the program decided to reconfigure how I use my operating system but other than that I'm quite impressed with the installation" classic british humor :))

I've been transitioning to Linux and have heard of Wine but not had the time to investigate. This video was very helpful. Thank you.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@jgabrielcastro89

6 жыл бұрын

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

@jgabrielcastro89

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@Xeno_Bardock

6 жыл бұрын

For windows applications, virtual machine is near perfect solution.

@cldream

6 жыл бұрын

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)

"Bottle" is what CrossOver calls the Wine Prefixes. (each prefix is essentially its own virtual Windows computer.) Cinnamon is the Desktop Environment for Linux Mint Cinnamon. If that crashes it will fallback on a very simple DE that lets you finish what you where doing. That Cinnamon crashes is very rare now days (don't remember when it crashed for me last, and my Linux Mint Cinnamon computer is on 24h a day 365.25 days a year.) But if it happens its usually safe to just click yes when it asks you if you want to restart cinnamon. I would only recommend clicking No if your in the middle of something very sensitive. Like rendering or compiling something.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

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! :)

Thank you sooo much! As you know the field of technology is so vast that one person cannot know it all. With your videos you help me cover significant gaps that I have. For example I have been testing distros of Linux for 20 years off and on .. and I did use wine many many years ago. But since then I had never tried it again. I even have zorin on a virtual machine but didn't realize that it has wine built into it. I have a huge collection of "portable apps" that should be able to work ... So I'll give them a try. You help bring excitement and fun back into computing. PS it's because of you that I now own 2 raspberry pi's. Thanks a bunch

Thanks, 4 years later and I'm needing Wine on my Zorin machine. Thanks for explaining computers. 👍👍

@ExplainingComputers

Жыл бұрын

Greetings! :)

Hey Chris, thanks for covering this topic. I have given serious thought to switching to Linux on all of my devices but the one thing that holds me back is the application support across the platforms. I used WINE several years ago but wasn't thrilled with the lack of available applications at the time. I'll definitely be checking into WINE again to see if I can jump the Microsoft ship for good now. Not that I dislike Windows, but rather that I like Linux better.

One of the most useful videos ever on the channel. Congratulations !

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

Awesome stuff yet again Chris, answered one of my doubts about Windows software on Linux that I had. Been considering the same thing with Windows 10 telemetry practices and all, will be testing and playing with Wine a bit on my Ubuntu laptop.

Thank you for taking the time to make another video and share it with all of us. I really enjoy your Channel, good show!

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

It wasn't the program that reconfigured your operating system. The cinnamon desktop has a fallback mode that uses the old gnome desktop layout. If you restarted cinnamon, you wouldn't have had that layout anymore.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, I see. Thanks for this.

@Xeno_Bardock

6 жыл бұрын

It falls back to Mate desktop layout.

@karx3231

4 жыл бұрын

@@Xeno_Bardock Mate is based on old gnome

Absolutely top quality channel and videos. Thank you sir.

Always excellent quality video. Thank you for making the effort to provide real high res videos that we can see and read on screen! Ditching Windows in favour of a Linux distribution is difficult. Especially when some special features are contemplated such as ZFS and also when for business purposes, specific Windows applications must still be available, being through Wine, PlayOnLinux or CrossOver. It definitely does not guarantee it will work and then the final option is either VirtualBox or VMware at the rescue but then a full paid license for Windows is needed. Very tricky indeed. Great job, Thank you

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

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

Very timely video as I'm finally getting into Linux and would much prefer to start with familiar Windows apps. Thanks a lot!

Just as you, I plan to abandon all things Windows (except for, perhaps, the very interesting ReactOS which I just learned about from you today!) prior to January, 2020. I had been playing (a little) with Ubuntu, but have found it to be frustrating. I am not a coder. I intend now to start again with LinuxMint. I have known of Wine for many years but a lot has changed since I moved on from my IT career. I feel lucky indeed to have found a great teacher in you. THANKS for all you do...

Well presented, informative and useful. Thank you.

I love seeing more and more people are willing to try some flavors of Linux(insert your favorite distro here) or form of BSD(TrueBSD Is nice for beginners) like Free or Net and Open BSD OSes and people willing to take the time and learn something new and getting a chance to understand how the computer they own can be a valuable tool instead of something they regret sitting down in front of. Great Video as always. Love this stuff. Thank you again.

As always well done I am addicted to your videos very clear explanations

"... We're in LightWave head! Wasn't expecting to do that today." I like your commentary 😀👍

It's nice to see the Linux users community creating these projects to make things more easier to newbies :)

Love your videos. Very useful, informative. Thank you.

Thanks for this particular video! I know it's not a new one, but I remembered it -- like a good reference book -- now that I need to try using Wine myself.

Absolutely brilliant, thanks. I am impressed. Must try some things soon on my HP Mini with an Atom N570 CPU. I must first format a partition to install a Linux Distro. These look stunning with black (Dark) menu's and layout. Now being able to run Windows applications i see progress. You could do some benchmarks to let us see if apps run faster or have better use of hardware.

thanx for your tutorials, love them!

Good, informative video detailed enough as overview of WINE etc.

While have linux on some of my computer, but Wine hasn't been somethin I haven't experimented with. There are several Windows program I used a lot, in some cases they will never be udated to use on later Windows addition, or will have linux version. Thanks for producing this video.

Wine could pretty much justify a permanent channel or subchannel all to itself, given all the variables involved in making it function: Wine itself, the Windows software, and the herd of Linuxes people will expect it to run on. I'm experiencing Windows 10 angst myself, glad to know I'm not alone.

Thnx,as a Linux newbie I can use the help .

back in the day when wine came out, i would install drivers to my hardware i was using as if it was windows system. now its set up to try to run on all systems os and hardware. but back thin i got it to run game called "oni". thanks for your time in this video.

another professional production. love it.

Really interesting - didn't realize it was possible to run some windows apps was possible on Linux distros.

oh wow, you use lightwave? very surprising to see that revelation pop up on your channel (which is terrific btw). my workflow is primarily maya based now with zbrush for hires organics but i still use lw (9.65) with the 3rd powers tools and lwcad for low poly modeling.

Another very interesting and fun video to watch my friend. Thank you for making this. I am an exclusive Linux Mint user. No windows machines that do any heavy lifting. All the heavy lifting is done by my two linux machines. I do have a windows 10 machine that I toy around with when I have nothing better to do, but I love Linux and don't see that changing anytime soon. Keep up the great work and I look forward to your next video.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Many thanks. :)

This opens a lot of possibilities for me, i am going to try this asap, i dont expect everything to work, but it is a step in the right direction for sure sinds i have been wanting to switch to linux for some time now.

Very great video! Wine is a fantastic project! I hope they will improve it even more :D

I have a desktop with Mint that works great but I haven't used it much. I think I will try it.

Thanx Chris - best computer advice on KZread.

Thanks. This video is a life saver. I installed this on my Mac and Linux Server

We just covered up a person! That's probably illegal!

@BlackieNuff

5 жыл бұрын

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

@yazzz

5 жыл бұрын

loool

@todddelozier8172

4 жыл бұрын

Haha! I was about to quote this too.

@volkerking5932

4 жыл бұрын

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

Thank you for promoting Linux !

Thank you very much for such a nice lecture on wine.

Thank you for not pulling any punches in the final summary. I have been trying to find a way to stream xfinity (Adobe Flash) content on Linux using Wine, PlayOnLinux, etc. but have yet to find a way to do it other than running Win10 in a virtual machine. I really want to dump windows permanently, but the wife is not interested unless it fits all criteria in her ideal HTPC machine.

When I switched to Mint (after watching one of your videos) I just dropped all Windows programs. Most the freewear programs I use are on Linux anyway.

@thecaptain2281

6 жыл бұрын

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

@ClaireAzi

6 жыл бұрын

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

@KD-xp4di

5 жыл бұрын

@@ClaireAzi have you tried using libreoffice?

@ClaireAzi

5 жыл бұрын

@@KD-xp4di of course.

@fargeeks

5 жыл бұрын

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

There is also lutris for games, it uses wine as well.

Amazing and informative video, I love the presentation etc. Keep it up! Cheers Peter :)

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@petermc7098

6 жыл бұрын

Your welcome, cheers Peter

All of your videos excellent tutorial. Thank you sir

Works both ways there are a couple of progs I use in Linux for which there isn't really a full Windows alternative. Ho hum.

Once I tried wine on Mint, to run a audio recording program called Reaper. But I had some complications with sound card drivers and with some plugins (mini apps you run into Reaper). but overall it was a good experience, In a emergency I could record with Linux Mint and Wine.

@1pcfred

6 жыл бұрын

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.

Great Video :P I played few windows games on Linux mint using wine, it works great :D

I run a linux distro on a USB stick (inside a controller) with Wine installed to run a self made Game & Watch look-a-like menu (32-bit program (called PC-Boy)) i made in the past with Delphi, that uses ZSNES in full screen mode to execute some games stored in a database. Early version of Windows is not easy possible on a USB stick, linux supports it out of the box and small in size. I was very surprised it works flawlessly, it's amazing. ZSNES is using DirectX 7 or 8 and execute without any drawbacks on almost any computer I own. Wine is great stuff, especially for older software.

Very helpful with some nice jokes. I missed you trying office 2013 or 2016 that's my mine worry moving to Linux

@jonrend

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@MrRobertLavala

4 жыл бұрын

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

I'll never understand why MS didn't include some sort of program like WINE on every version of Windows after WinXP. There are allot of games that I loved playing back in the 90's that won't run on modern Windows that will run in WINE and at times runs better than the version of Windows that it was intended for. Wine is a must for any Linux desktop/laptop. Would love to see a version of WINE for Retropie in the future to run old Win 9x games.

@SweetHyunho

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@ikeyasector

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@paulmarano4078

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@altermetax

6 жыл бұрын

Ubuntu Phone is dead since when Canonical dropped Unity development

@lobitome

5 жыл бұрын

$$$

Great video, I was just looking into this suject. Thanks for the video.

Good morning, buddy. Thank you for this report. Congratulations.

!s there a Kindle reader for Linux? Kindle Cloud Reader This solution actually works, and is usable not just on Linux but Chromebooks, and any other computer. It's a virtual Kindle device in a web browser. With the Kindle Cloud Reader, you access all the Kindle content you've purchased and can read it via your web browser.Dec 10, 2017 Reading Kindle books on Linux, supporting a switch to Linux

In fact crossover didn't reconfigure your UI. It was just the window manager (which draws your menus as well) which crashed while installing and as you chose not to restart it, it stayed in a gnome2 fail safe window manager.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, as I now understand. Thanks. :)

Ty for your time. Love your work!

High quality as always. Good stuff.

Nice explanation as always. Been trying to figure how to leave windows since Windows 10 convinced me to move to Linux. I have a Mac & 2 PCs, one with win7 and the other Zorin. Win10 showed me Microsoft is never going to write a reliable os again. Linux has the same problem as Mac, not enough native programs.

If the windows program don't work with stable Wine version which is currently 2.0.3, you can try getting it to work with Wine Staging which is currently version 2.20, chances are windows program will work, if it still doesn't work, either Wine doesn't support it yet or windows program needs some .dll .net, visual basic, etc. dependencies to work. You can use PlayOnLinux to manage Wine versions and then try installing windows program to see if it work. Wine isn't a perfect solution, not yet. For now, you can install Windows in VirtualBox/VMWare Player on Linux and install/run your windows programs which is a near perfect solution. Use Wine for games and VirtualBox/VMWare Player for windows programs.

@MrDeejayjfx

6 жыл бұрын

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

@Xeno_Bardock

6 жыл бұрын

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 kzread.info/dash/bejne/iatm2tKxm8vPpM4.html

Very nice video! Thank you for sharing your experience.

Informative video as usual thanks.

So apparently photoshop cs4 and cs6 work with Wine, huh, I just assumed photoshop was too much for Wine, I may make a switch for Linux now.

W Ine I s N ot an E mulator

@nickplj12

3 жыл бұрын

wE kNoW!!1!1!1!1!111

@blackboxbs8642

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like plebbitors

@archishmannag4496

2 жыл бұрын

@MoolsDogTwo Wine - ception lol

Wine is a project that dates back to the 1990's. During that time I was actively playing with Linux with very old distros. If you wanted a Linux GUI you usually installed XWindows.

Thank you very very much. I am grateful for the info and may you have a very blessed day.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Wine definitely isn't all plug&play in the sense that every program or game runs perfect as it would on a proper configured Windows. However, I also use to follow the projects for a couple of years now, starting back in 2004 with some really early version that could run simple Flash games at best (and CS1.6 apparently which I didn't had back then) and ran on good old Knoppix3.7 with Linux kernel version 2.4. Wine 2.0 is not too old actually either, it brought some long awaited improvements and development is still going on. Of course, for those who want to play games these days, Steam offers many many games also natively to Linux by now but some classics like Age of Empires II would still need a Windows installation running which is were Wine fits in greatly. Newer stuff on the other hand still likes to crash a lot, that's no surprise given the complexity of most software these days. Still Wine is better than many people like it to be, I definitely find the project very fascinating to follow and still like to try out running Windows software with that overlay under my current Kubuntu 16.04 setup. Nonetheless I also like to cross the river thus I also run Windows10 Pro with excitement (haven't run macOS in a while however) :> Great video there, also because I have no experience with Crossover so far. I still recommend both dualboot and virtual machines however, in cases there is software like the Kindle program or Microsoft Office that just won't work fine with Wine yet. Thumbs up!

I remember looking at Wine a *long* time ago - right around the turn of the millennium - because the place I worked at at the time had like 500 PCs running Windows 98, and it was going to be *very* pricey to update them all to the newest version of Windows, so we were looking at alternatives to sending tons of money to Microsoft. And in almost 20 years of innovation and upgrades, Wine *still* has issues. Because Windows keeps getting upgraded, new Windows apps get released, and old Windows apps get updated. There will never be a “perfect” solution - Wine will always be playing catch-up, no matter how good it gets.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

True on the catch-up thing.

Excellent video Sir, thank you very much indeed !

Thanks so much for your videos, they have helped me so much

Thnks EC

Wine 3.0 released and it's DirectX 11 compatible :)

@goku445

4 жыл бұрын

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

yeeesss i was waiting for this! thanks

Excellent video, Christopher! I applaud your choice of Linux Mint, and I agree with your evaluation of Wine. The ideal solution of course, would be to convince software companies (such as Adobe) to create Linux versions of their Windows software.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. If the main Adobe suite were on Linux (even given their rental model), as well as LightWave, I would have switched to Linux years ago.

@Xeno_Bardock

6 жыл бұрын

They are essentially forcing people to use Windows 10 by not porting softwares and games to Linux on purpose. Is the only way to get them to port to Linux is refuse to buy windows softwares and games?

I love the way you're running an 80's hair-do on a 2017 head ;) hehe x

@volkerking5932

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@simbastone1

4 жыл бұрын

USER NAME À.

If anything, I would continue using Windows 10, considering there are just way too many programs that I still need to use, and I'm not a huge fan of Linux, but I would use Linux to do development stuff, because it's kind of better for programming.

@Confedyank

6 жыл бұрын

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

I enjoyed this video and this topic, i am thinking of leaving windows and entering linux as the OS, and you give good information to base my decision on. you are not the only one, but i value your opininon, thank you for that !!

Excellent review as always l am being educated. I use wine for Lotus Suite and it performs faster than under Windows 10. I found this Suite on DVD at an old software barn in Silicon Valley for $1.98 a copy. The disks from IBM were $498.00 for this Suite. I used the tools over 10 years to build an 8 in 1 relational Database. WINE has been a savior for me as l migrate to Linux MX-18.3 Xfce. However, Intuits Quicken program working under Crossover Office did not work with my current version so l had to install an earlier version. Intuit keeps selling minor updates for $59.00 at Costco each year so l stopped using the product and link directly to my bank and brokerage house. They report quarterly, monthly, and annually. YOUR REVIEW WAS "excellent and professional."

I just run windows 10 in a vm using vm ware on linux mint, could not believe how easy it was to do either, considering I am anything BUT an expert!

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent to hear! Glad it worked.

@chuctanundaspiderbone5407

4 жыл бұрын

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

@stevenlatus6936

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@stevenlatus6936

2 жыл бұрын

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).

Virtualbox is easier to use and absolutely NO compatibility issues :) :)

@GumSkyloard

4 жыл бұрын

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

Excellent tutorial. You should have mentioned that it is no usually a good idea to install from outside you distro's repository as tit could cause issues with your install. There is also the VirtualBox option to be able to run Windows O/S and then run programs from within that.

Very good to know about wine on linux mint.

I'll seriously have to think about moving to Linux soon because as soon as Window 7 maintenance is ended I think it's game over, unless I buy an enterprise copy of windows 10 to completely disable hardcore telemetry.

@Vicorcivius

6 жыл бұрын

ARRRRRRRRRRRR A pirates life for me!!!

@Xeno_Bardock

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@cldream

6 жыл бұрын

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?

@Xeno_Bardock

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@cldream

6 жыл бұрын

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)

Amazon made sure it would not work on anything other than real Windows. There was a linux version which they discontinued. Microsoft's likely had a role in their decision - crush the competition - A senior Microsoft executive once described open source as a "cesspit".

I would like to see more technical stuff on this topic, like why a Windows program can't be run in Linux natively, what's the difference between Windows and Linux binaries, how does Wine or other programs for running Windows programs on Linux solve the problem, what works faster: a virtual machine or something like Wine, why, how they work.

A very good series of videos.

November 2018 = Wine 3.04 is now the latest release.

Chris, one way you could alleviate WINE's shortcomings is to run a Windows virtual machine to run the pesky apps that won't run under WINE directly. You'd need a semi-beefy system to essentially run both OSes at once, but thatd' allow stuff to work, like your Amazon reader drivers. I know that's not what the point of this video was, but that's what I can think of to make what you demonstrated at the end.

Very useful, thank for sharing this.

I like the "I am back into LightWave head on..." reminds me of Worzel Gummidge. :) Thanks for the info.

Here's a recommendation for people looking to game with Wine: Gallium Nine. It's an extension that allows barebone D3D9 calls to execute without any conversion to OpenGL, extracting the most of your hardware's performance. I strongly recommend it with Source-based games.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Very helpful, thanks.

@JosueC730

6 жыл бұрын

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

@SheepyChris

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@Xeno_Bardock

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@Xeno_Bardock

6 жыл бұрын

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

I've covered up a person, that's probably illegal....made me laugh.

I think that Wine and all of its spinoffs (like Valve's Proton) are making such quick and incredible improvements. I was able to fully switch from Windows to Linux and continue to play all of my Windows games without ever having to boot up Windows, either in a VM or separate partition. I've been playing my Windows games on Linux for almost a year now and I still can't believe how well everything works. My games basically run as they would on Windows, or even better!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

This is really interesting feedback -- thanks for sharing.

The fact this program exists and the developers have worked so long on it gives me a LOT of hope. I have many times said if someone develops a program or emulator that will run some Windows programs on Linus, Microsoft can screw itself. It has become more and more intrusive into our private lives and gotten more and more bloated and MUCH less dependable as far as security. Thank you so much for this video!