That's interesting you were able to get AnyRail running under Linux. I need to pursue that approach. I currently run it under BootCamp on my main Mac, but that is so old it's Win7. It works, and it works with my 25-year-old HP 11x17 laser printer. So as long as I get functionality out of the combo, I'm golden on layout design. Heaven help me when the hardware gives-up the ghost.
I really do enjoy running JMRI under RaspPi OS on a Raspberry Pi 5. Smooth experience, and even better once I got the dual touchscreens to work with it. Just amazing.
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... With the recent effort by M$ to make all my home computers obsolete, ...
Interesting. Didn't realize MS had finally jumped onto Apple's way of doing business. I fear every OS upgrade, even incremental "minor" security updates... what software, or hardware, is going to break
this time? Useful life of Apple hardware, if you update with each major OS release, is about five years. Don't update, then you can't run recent releases of apps you have but no choice to use, like tax software. Alternative is using the web-based equivalent. Nuh uh - next paragraph.
...constant telemetry that they collect on everything I do...
Somehow that has become OK, everywhere, regardless of product. Does MS do the same in the Eurozone, with their data privacy laws? (We in the US have none! 'Cept California, maybe.) I just bought a pre-owned SUV of a specific year, the last year of the model that hadn't forced telematics down your throat. At least the laundry pair we bought last year are operable without enabling their WiFi connection. Our otherwise nice treadmill is severely limited in features because I won't let it log into our network, and nags us about it every time we use it. It has a camera and microphone, not controlled by me. Uh, right. Tape over both.
Anyway, does Wine run on 64-bit ARM flavors of Linux? Is it a compatibility layer, or a full x86-type emulator? I've been migrating everything I can to Linux, mostly on Raspberry Pi 5, both 5s and 500s. I guess I should go ask in the Rasp Pi forum about Wine.
My biggest reservation about Linux is productivity apps, second biggest is support. App UIs are all over the place as there is no "standard" way of doing things, every developer for themselves. What might be a simple right-click submenu on Mac or Win can be a left-click dropdown, then right click, open another window, and pat your head and rub your tummy for a basic function like changing a font in a word processor.
Scribus is that way.
My experience with "volunteer" support in the Linux world is nothing less than infuriating. Ask about a "how to...?", get a demeaning lecture about "you should know this" with no useful answer, or "what you want to do works better with [this obscure app]" that has a dozen dependencies. Clutter. Lots of clutter.
Yeah, old man rant, but an old man in the trade. 20 years ago we were talking about, "What's the profitability model now that the software is at 99% of daily needs?" Now we know - planned obsolescence, leaseware, and snooping. It
was better 20 years ago, don't tell me about all your specious "new" features - especially AI these days - that do little more than get in your way and worse, send you down rabbit holes.
So there's my whine on Wine. Where's my cane? (As he scurries off to check on Wine under Ubuntu on a three-generations-ago Mac mini.)
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