Most of it works fine if the devs aren’t actively making it impossible to work under Wine, either as a conscious effort (which is more often than you would think) or as a side-effect of other shady practices like constant communication with servers for DRM that is poorly or aggressively implemented.
because i like mspaint?
I’ve been using it for the last ~5 years for (really shitty) pixel art and i can’t find anything similar enough for linux. it never worked under wine for me.
How do you even get an installer for mspaint?? Like, I’m honestly baffled and intrigued at this point that mspaint is the “killer app” keeping someone on Windows and how one would even try to install it under wine…
I did a bit of hunting online and most people report no problems with the windows xp version of paint under wine, but 7 and later requires some tinkering because of missing .dll files or won’t work at all.
No, it’s because MS Paint is such a basic application, that it not working under Wine sounds like fantasy. I can believe that about Windows 10/11 Paint. But Win32 versions??
The biggest problem with Linux has always been windows software imo.
Do you mean lack of quality native applications?
Most of it works fine if the devs aren’t actively making it impossible to work under Wine, either as a conscious effort (which is more often than you would think) or as a side-effect of other shady practices like constant communication with servers for DRM that is poorly or aggressively implemented.
idk, simple stuff like old versions of microsoft word, or mspaint don’t work under wine.
Define old. Office 2007 works.
huh. didn’t in my experience.
mspaint…? Is. Is this a troll?
because i like mspaint?
I’ve been using it for the last ~5 years for (really shitty) pixel art and i can’t find anything similar enough for linux. it never worked under wine for me.
How do you even get an installer for mspaint?? Like, I’m honestly baffled and intrigued at this point that mspaint is the “killer app” keeping someone on Windows and how one would even try to install it under wine…
I did a bit of hunting online and most people report no problems with the windows xp version of paint under wine, but 7 and later requires some tinkering because of missing .dll files or won’t work at all.
I wouldn’t say it’s keeping me on windows, but I would miss it.
I just tried downloading the .exes from the Internet archive.
No, it’s because MS Paint is such a basic application, that it not working under Wine sounds like fantasy. I can believe that about Windows 10/11 Paint. But Win32 versions??
Then don’t use them? Alternatives exist that work better
That’s a feature.
well, that feature has been the reason i’ve always had to keep a windows laptop around.