WINE - was - Re: Budget-priced Windows license

[Bret Busby]

On 25/5/22 3:02 am, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 5:52 AM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 24/5/22 5:30 pm, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 15:34, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It was ratings like those that convinced me to stop using Wine.
>>>
>>>
>>> It is a *lot* better than it used to be.
>>>
>>> https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/19/wine_7/
>>>
>>> Which is why I wrote that article, in fact.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Okay; I have read the article, after seeing the above post, but...
>>
>> When I visited the wine web site, to try to find how easy it would be,
>> to install and use it on UbuntuMATE 20.10, the install procedure appears
>> to be quite complicated, and, too risky (it requires 32 bit libraries,
>> that apparently conflict with the Ubuntu 64 bit libraries, or
>> something), and, it appears to be not available as a downloadable and
>> installable package for 20.10.
> 
> Do you mean 20.04? 20.10 is end-of-life, and has been for almost a year.
> 
> Just for in case you didn't know this already, using an end-of-life
> Ubuntu release is a good way to get hacked. You're missing about 10
> months of critical security updates (most likely including web browser
> updates), which leaves you open to all sorts of junk. One wrong click
> during web browsing could result in a malware infection. I believe
> I've gotten hacked in the past (on Linux!) from failing to keep my
> system up to date, and the recovery process was not fun (I had to
> reinstall my OS entirely, and I still have yet to dig up my old data
> out of my last disk image backup).
> 
>> And, while 20.10, for the moment, like 16.04, my preferred version,
>> seems to be running okay, I found the versions later than 20.10, to be
>> too problematic.
> 
> Maybe you could explain what problems you've been having? That's why
> we're here! Just keep in mind that, even if you have to hop to a
> different Ubuntu flavor or even to a totally different distro
> altogether in order to get an up-to-date and enjoyable computing
> experience, it's better than continuing to use end-of-life software.
> You'll be a lot more upset if you lose your data than if you have to
> use a less enjoyable distro. (Though if the distros are getting worse
> as time goes on, we'd like to know about it so we can fix it!)
> 

I had previously, some time ago, mentioned, on the list, the problems 
that I encountered.

I had had the later versions installed, and, with what they did, the 
only versions that still operate, now, are, on one computer, 20.10, and, 
on the other, 16.04. The third system was completely corrupted, and, 
now, awaits the work to do a complete system rebuild, or, going back to 
MS Windows 7, that, I believe, is still installed on it, and. I expect, 
would be able to boot. None of the Linux installations on that computer, 
are now usable.

I am aware of the expectation that a computer operating system is 
supposed to be kept updated to the latest available version, for the 
sake of security.

I had to abandon that principle, for the sake of usability.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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