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Hello Crossover team, how are you doing?
My first Crossover license was from back when there was a build for Solaris (maybe 2007). I used it on OpenSolaris Nevada. At that time, I had MS Office and Adobe products running with Crossover. Good times.
Well, I became a Crossover customer again in 2022, and to my complete disappointment, since then I haven’t seen any real effort for productivity:
I know a lot of effort is being put into gaming, but since I’m a Steam customer, that’s not why I buy Crossover.
A sincere question, please don’t criticize me, I’m not being arrogant: with very low compatibility for serious productivity apps, and the gaming side being very well implemented by Steam and Lutris, what is Crossover for these days? If the focus is on gaming, this tool is too expensive. If the focus is on productivity, then it’s not reaching its goals (not even close).
PS: With all this, you might wonder why I use Linux, then? Well, Linux is my primary platform because, first and foremost, I am a computer engineer. My main business is fully compatible with Linux and Unix-like systems, so even though I sometimes need those applications, installing Windows is out of the question. In my opinion, this is exactly the kind of case for which Crossover is intended.
Franklin Ronald wrote:
Hello Crossover team, how are you doing?
My first Crossover license was from back when there was a build for Solaris (maybe 2007). I used it on OpenSolaris Nevada. At that time, I had MS Office and Adobe products running with Crossover. Good times.
Well, I became a Crossover customer again in 2022, and to my complete disappointment, since then I haven’t seen any real effort for productivity:
- Office 365 doesn’t activate. I’ve been waiting for this to work for 3 years;
- Affinity doesn’t work. What surprises me is that there are tutorials online, but CodeWeavers hasn’t implemented it;
- Adobe CC doesn’t work;
- SolidWorks doesn’t work;
- CorelDRAW extremely problematic;
I know a lot of effort is being put into gaming, but since I’m a Steam customer, that’s not why I buy Crossover.
A sincere question, please don’t criticize me, I’m not being arrogant: with very low compatibility for serious productivity apps, and the gaming side being very well implemented by Steam and Lutris, what is Crossover for these days? If the focus is on gaming, this tool is too expensive. If the focus is on productivity, then it’s not reaching its goals (not even close).
PS: With all this, you might wonder why I use Linux, then? Well, Linux is my primary platform because, first and foremost, I am a computer engineer. My main business is fully compatible with Linux and Unix-like systems, so even though I sometimes need those applications, installing Windows is out of the question. In my opinion, this is exactly the kind of case for which Crossover is intended.
Your either joking or trolling. I can't tell which it is. Crossover is 20ドル on Cyber Monday with the promo codes they provide. It's is 10ドル or less when you renew at that time of year as well. It is hands-down the least expensive WINE based software that runs over 20,000 apps out there.
Since you mention you are a computer engineer, you will understand why some programs work on a WINE based platform and some do not. Codeweavers does not write all the code that makes it possible to run Windows based applications on non-Windows systems. It is part of a larger community that provides the code that makes it all possible. They have to wait for others to provide that code. You yourself can contribute to the open source program if you see something lacking.
You'll also understand that while there may be methods to get apps to run on a non-Windows based platform, when your application can run 20,000+ programs, it is not a trivial exercise to implement a change that may make an application work. It has to be tested to ensure it doesn't break any of the others.
I agree with Franklin on Office 365. Try as I may I still can't get it to login to my Office 365 account. Just the white screen that everyone else gets.
I agree that with Steam Play and Lutris the state of gaming on Linux is far better than it was in the past.
I'm eternally grateful to Codeweavers for working with Valve to bring Proton to all of us on GNU/Linux.
Folks on Mac don't have this option and Crossover is an extremely useful tool for them.
I don't use Office 365, but it sounds like it is always a moving target. I get the sense that Microsoft is intentionally breaking it for us.
These days I mostly use crossover for obscure Windows programs that I want to "just work" without spending effort to make them work.
Franklin Ronald wrote:
- Office 365 doesn’t activate. I’ve been waiting for this to work for 3 years;
- Affinity doesn’t work. What surprises me is that there are tutorials online, but CodeWeavers hasn’t implemented it;
- Adobe CC doesn’t work;
- SolidWorks doesn’t work;
- CorelDRAW extremely problematic;
All those apps wth the exception of SolidWorks work natively on Mac so why do you use Crossover for them?
All those apps wth the exception of SolidWorks work natively on Mac so why do you use Crossover for them?
I think he is running Linux rather than Mac.
S M wrote:
All those apps wth the exception of SolidWorks work natively on Mac so why do you use Crossover for them?
I think he is running Linux rather than Mac.
I didn't read the end of the post so you're right, he's using Linux. It would be good though if people with long posts write their specs in the beginning so it's more clear right from the start because he's posting in the general subforum and not in the Linux forum.
Hello everyone,
I understand what you mean Franklin. I felt the same way, I also need to work with Solid Works and Corel Draw is something I've been wanting for many, many years and I still don't see anything on this.. I did thought of not renewing since other tools do things similar to crossover but, I later understood some things.
1.- Supporting Crossover also helps the WINE Project as well as having full time WINE programmers.
2.- I get quick tech support and the Codeweavers guys are great!!.
3.- I understood that WINE is not fully developed by Codeweavers so it is not 100% their job since it's a community project.
4.- I DO THINK Microsoft breaks things to make things hard.. I mean. office365 is VERY BUGGY even on windows.
I ended up buying Softmaker Office for linux and I also use Office WEB at work on the cloud... it's not that bad.
For other applications I use Windows with qemu-kvm and It's even faster that on real hardware, I use the same OEM license from my lenovo and gpu passthru.
I hope one day WINE will run most windows apps.
Regards
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