A little of this, a little of that...
Oct. 3rd, 2014 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpChecked out something called Crossover Linux, which lets you run Windows programs in Linux. With that kind of mission, it seems reasonable to ask the question: Why not just run Windows to begin with?
Well, for one thing, running Windows has become more complicated over the years. New versions have often not lived up to their promise, and have an annoying tendency to impose UI features on a "take it or leave it" basis. I recently fired up a new Windows 8 machine, and if it is, in fact, possible to not create an associated login account with Microsoft, I'm sure it would be an ongoing struggle to not do so. It's easier to just go with the flow and Obey.
There are very few Windows programs that I have found to be actually indispensable. In what I do for work, Word and Excel fall into that category, not because the programs are so good, but because they are so widely used, and while "well-formed" Word files should import without any problems into the LibreOffice Writer application, quite a number of the files I deal with exhibit sufficient "pathology" inside of Word to make working with them problematical.
Most TM apps run under Windows, and I am coming to like MemoQ quite a bit, but a number of new translation tools have appeared for Linux machines, which is a good thing.
In the end, aside from some Microsoft Office apps, there was hardly anything in the list of "what runs" under Crossover Linux that I would want to run.
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One file came in, the same file went out. Work is a little on the slow side, which is welcome just about now.
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I need to make a point of putting aside time to "sharpen the saw."
Cheers...
Well, for one thing, running Windows has become more complicated over the years. New versions have often not lived up to their promise, and have an annoying tendency to impose UI features on a "take it or leave it" basis. I recently fired up a new Windows 8 machine, and if it is, in fact, possible to not create an associated login account with Microsoft, I'm sure it would be an ongoing struggle to not do so. It's easier to just go with the flow and Obey.
There are very few Windows programs that I have found to be actually indispensable. In what I do for work, Word and Excel fall into that category, not because the programs are so good, but because they are so widely used, and while "well-formed" Word files should import without any problems into the LibreOffice Writer application, quite a number of the files I deal with exhibit sufficient "pathology" inside of Word to make working with them problematical.
Most TM apps run under Windows, and I am coming to like MemoQ quite a bit, but a number of new translation tools have appeared for Linux machines, which is a good thing.
In the end, aside from some Microsoft Office apps, there was hardly anything in the list of "what runs" under Crossover Linux that I would want to run.
One file came in, the same file went out. Work is a little on the slow side, which is welcome just about now.
I need to make a point of putting aside time to "sharpen the saw."
Cheers...
