[HN Gopher] Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows a...
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Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine
Author : davikr
Score : 84 points
Date : 2024-01-22 20:57 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| z_open wrote:
| Really cool. Just tried it with notepad++ and it seemed to work
| as expected. Can't find a use case for me yet but may come up.
| ape4 wrote:
| Running iexplore.exe ;)
| V__ wrote:
| You monster...
| simlevesque wrote:
| Fallout 3 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4wnKf2OsI
|
| 800x600, around 20 fps, settings on high.
| SubiculumCode wrote:
| I recently changed my work desktop environment to Linux, however
| the transition has been a bit rough. The University I work for
| uses Microsoft OneDrive for file storage and sharing, but won't
| authorize the 3rd party Linux onedrive app. I want the files
| locally, so the clunky web interface is a no go. I don't have a
| spare wINDOWS LICENSE.
|
| There is however an official Android OneDrive app. So I installed
| an virtual android instance on my Linux workstation and logged in
| with the Onedrive app...but boom. The Ondrive app will store
| files locally, but not in the way of the Desktop app. Each file
| is named something random which is indexed by some database file,
| and the directory structure is not maintained at all. Making it
| pretty much unusable without some fix.
|
| Its infuriating. A smart programmer might be able to make an
| interface that translates their directory system to the real one,
| but ugh.
| shemnei wrote:
| I don't know if that helps in your case, but rclone is capable
| to sync onedrive ot a local folder (send/receiving).
| <https://rclone.org/onedrive/>
| SushiHippie wrote:
| With 3rd party do you mean this one?
|
| https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/
|
| Or which one did you try?
| parkaboy wrote:
| Oh this sounds like a potentially fun way to do music production.
| I wonder how well stuff like Reason and Live might work here.
| stefanyas wrote:
| Wine on Linux desktop runs an older version of Reason okish, I
| believe. I never tested that, just read somewhere. But if you
| wanna run, say, Reason 12, I don't think it works very well.
| AsthmaBoy wrote:
| Apparently, Reason 12 runs well
|
| https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio.
| ..
| speps wrote:
| Is this Box86 running Linux running WINE? That seems convoluted,
| but it's probably the most straightforward right now. Impressive!
| user_7832 wrote:
| On a similar/tangential note about running stuff on wine, does
| anyone know how to run Microsoft Office, or Netflix (or any
| similar DRM service like Prime videos) on Linux using wine?
|
| I'm seriously considering switching to Linux on a new laptop as
| someone tired of windows eating resources randomly and I don't
| want to install Windows 10 when I get my laptop. I've looked at
| hypervisors and have used hyper x but there still appears to be a
| performance hit even if the host is Linux (if I'm not mistaken).
| pentamassiv wrote:
| Why do you want to use wine to play Netflix videos on Linux. It
| works fine in the browser
| shreddit wrote:
| Office has some pretty decent web apps (all of their apps
| switch to electron sooner or later anyway)
| goosedragons wrote:
| Older versions of Office can work quite well under Wine. 2007
| is quite easy to get going using PlayOnLinux or Crossover for
| example. Newer versions are more trouble.
| jeroenhd wrote:
| DRM used to work; I installed Chrome in Lutris and managed to
| get Amazon Prime working, though Chrome was very buggy. Netflix
| sort of works in Firefox (needs an addon to play 1080p video,
| no idea about 4k).
|
| Microsoft Office (at least, a version that's kept up to date)
| doesn't work in Wine. I find ONLYOFFICE to be a very competent
| replacement, though.
|
| I've also used Cassowary to configure a Windows 10 VM + Remote
| Desktop Apps, which allow for Windows programs to appear native
| in the Linux launcher while secretly launching the VM and
| starting an RDP session for that application alone. It's a bit
| fiddly to set up, but it works if you rarely ever use Office.
|
| As a last resort, you could do what Microsoft did with Windows
| 11 when Wordpad got removed: install Microsoft Office Online as
| a web application (requires Chromium/WebKit browser to be
| installed since Mozilla decided PWAs aren't important to
| desktop users).
|
| If you don't care much about privacy risks, you could also skip
| the Linux crap and install ChromeOS Flex. It's probably the
| most user-friendly Linux desktop out there, and DRM should work
| out of the box.
| isawczuk wrote:
| My wife is using some custom software to create photo albums, so
| 99% of tablets don't work for her. With this I'm finally able to
| give her dream machine: affordable, lightweight and photo making
| machine.
| spiral09 wrote:
| Wow an easy an convenient app Time to play lethal company
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