Comment by alterom
13 hours ago
>Which windows program are you looking for, specifically?
All of them, specifically.
I don't want to think about which windows program can or can't run with Wine.
This includes:
* Microsoft software, from MSTeams to Windows itself
* Audio production software (DAWs and VST plug-ins)
* Games
* Device-specific software (like drivers/software for portable thermal printers)
* CAD (nTop, only supports Windows, for example, and don't tell me I don't need it; same for many Autodesk products. NX and Rhino don't have Linux support)
The last one is the most fun, as I'm a CAD developer who worked on nTop in particular.
I'm surprised you want to run real CAD software on a netbook. I think your use case is pretty unusual.
Also drivers are often better on Linux.
tbh I suspect it would be just fine. even the really cheap ones tend to have at least a few gigabytes of RAM.
>I'm surprised you want to run real CAD software on a netbook. I think your use case is pretty unusual.
CAD has been around since before IBM PC came out. It's not necessarily a demanding piece of software.
Still, scratch CAD. My favorite VST synths are Windows-based.
And I don't want to lug around extra kilograms just to make some noise.
I think you missed the point of a netbook.
Aside from Microsoft Office, the rest is workstation stuff, and Microsoft Office is pushing "web first" (at least if their pricing is to be believed, the lowest O365 subscriptions do not offer access to the native apps).
>I think you missed the point of a netbook.
I think you missed the point of the question.
> the rest is workstation stuff
Yes, I want to be able to run workstation stuff on the small computer I carry everywhere, so that I don't have to carry my workstation everywhere.
get a workstation laptop then?
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Your e-bike can’t tow a carriage either, that’s not strange.
We'll have to see how the AI softwarepocalypse goes. If I only need 10% of the features of Photoshop, I really don't need to be spending money on the full software suite.
How's nTop Linux support coming along?