<div dir="auto">No, Peter, I confess I haven't. Not because of costs or that I was unaware of it, but merely because I'm making a genuine effort to stick to Linux alone, as I do need to learn it as well as I can. Hence, I'm not installing wine, so that I don't fall for the temptation of resorting to windows when I need.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I want to be able to find a linux solution for these kind of situations, as I'm sure it is possible. And if I resort to wìndows every time I stumble upon a tricky one like this, I'm sabotaging myself and my intentions. That's my personal mindset on this, of course... will take me time and patience, but hey... I'm a patient stubborn bugger, lol...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As for the commercial related bit, I already replied to MR and it stands for here as well...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tda ;)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 Jul 2017 21:45, "Peter Flynn" <<a href="mailto:peter@silmaril.ie">peter@silmaril.ie</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 07/12/2017 08:45 PM, Joao Monteiro wrote:<br>
> I have been using Turbocad for nearly two decades and rely heavily on it<br>
> for my electric schematics. Sadly, the software authors/company never<br>
> provided any drivers for linux. And after a fairly deep search for<br>
> alternatives, the odd couple of them available are exceedingly<br>
> inadequate and unstable in behaviour for my cad needs.<br>
<br>
Have you tried Codeweavers WINE? It's a well-supported commercial fork<br>
of WINE, which provides a Windows environment inside Linux/Mac. I use it<br>
on the occasions where I specifically need to use Microsoft Word instead<br>
of Libre Office. I think it's $50 or something like that. You will need<br>
a fast machine with lots of memory but IMHO it's well worth it.<br>
<br>
> Not a Linux shortcoming, see... just one of the many cases where<br>
> authors/developers don't bother considering linux usage for it when<br>
> developing it.<br>
<br>
The clue is in your first sentence ("for nearly two decades"). Twenty<br>
years ago, Linux was niche and hardly even known by Windows or Mac<br>
developers. It's quite common for an old codebase like Turbocad to be so<br>
heavily rooted in the Windows way of doing things that creating a Linux<br>
version would be too expensive for the small number of users.<br>
<br>
Despite the fact that Mac OS X is basically Linux, the differences both<br>
in code standards and in the display manager make it a majot task to<br>
develop a Linux version.<br>
<br>
> So the question obviously is: why don't software developers in some<br>
> areas even bother with linux when developing their applications?<br>
<br>
Many commercial software companies are also very poorly informed about<br>
Linux and other Open Source platforms. There is a huge amount of both<br>
misinformation and disinformation in the very narrow scope of business<br>
decision makers, so unless the decision is simple and quick and<br>
profitable, they will not take it.<br>
<br>
///Peter<br>
<br>
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