Playonlinux installs wine whether this is already installed or not. In fact, one of its most interesting features is that it can install and use different versions of wine for different programs and program versions, and in this way cope with version regressions. The corresponding Wine program is automatically downloaded and used, or it can be selected by the user who knows what he's doing. Playonlinux also installs Winetricks to run wine scripts.
Wine installs in /.wine. Playonlinux installs in /.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/. But running wine from menus after it was installed by playonlinux would create the /.wine folder. From this point of view using Playonlinux already involves in a way using Wine as a separate program. There is no point really in installing Wine after installing playonlinux. Playonlinux installs Wine, which then can be then used from playonlinux or separately.
For example, I have installed ImgBurn in Playonlinux, but then went to menus, wine, and installed foobar2000 there just to test and this player now is available from wine but not from playonlinux. But programs like Foobar2000 and ImgBurn are easily installed in all of the three options. Others, like msoffice, especially older versions, are a different matter.
Playonlinux is a GUI, but also a program with supplementary specific features. It seems made for games, but I cannot tell whether it is really better then crossover, for example, in dealing with games.
Crossover has impressed me greatly, but it still may lack some features offered by playonlinux, so having both makes sense. The big advantage with crossover is in the way it facilitates the installation of programs that are difficult to put to work in Wine and playonlinux, like older versions of msoffice. It installs in /.cxoffice. I have not tested it enough but I believe it to be indeed a superior program. (While I was not able to install msofficexp in the other two, in Crossover it was very easy to do.)
For many small programs it makes little sense having all these three programs at the same time. But for certain special cases like msoffice (which i tested) or games (which i didn't test), and I guess for bigger and complex programs in general crossover and playonlinux may be necessary, so that one could be .
Update: I was able to install Kindle for PC in Crossover, but it would not run. In Playonlinux, Kindle for PC is registered in the list of software that can be selected for installation; after selecting it, a specific Wine version 1.4 was installed and the application was able to run. This is a good example how PlayOnLinux is very necessary.
I have solved the same issue just now.err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: xcb_poll_for_reply64Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.Unknown error (127).I believe it is a wine version specific issue, because I solved it upgrading wine from 1.7.4 to 3.20 (been a while).I describe my setup:
Has anybody managed to successfully run the game on Mac via crossover or maybe parallels ? I tried crossover and it runs perfectly smooth on highest settings but the character models will not be visible due to a graphics bug.
Out of interest, did you get the Linux version of LE working via crossover on the M1 pro? (Linux version is downloadable via the account page on the EHG website). Or is it the Windows version you have attempted to get working?
I made a crossover cable to connect my laptop to my BeagleBone without router. The problem is without router my BB doesnt have IP address so I can't ping it. How do I configure my BB and my laptop to assign a static IP connection between my BB (running latest debian image) and my laptop (running Windows 8.1)?
Crossover also aids developers to help them kinda port their code so that it will run under crossover. This will not require McNeel to redesign their complete sw package, but to simply add whats needed to make it run more fluently on other platforms. Do not miss the Video!
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The overall steps are to install crossover, and then install office using the 365 .exe installer from microsoft. Again this is the full featured windows version of office. My impression of it is it works but it can be finicky here and there and there is no real guarantee it will work perfectly unless microsoft endorses it.
Need to install Crossover so I can run some windows programs, Quicken primarily. The Crossover website provides 3 versions of linux to choose from: deb rpm and bin. I guessed I would need bin so I downloaded it. Now, how do I install it? I am an Arch newbie.
Anyone using any of these? I just completed a trial of Crossover linux, for no other reason than I was getting Christmas decorations out and found some of FPS games. 2 of which I also have linux installers, but wanted to see how they did.
Doom 3, postal 2 and Red faction all installed and played as well as I remembered. Could not get Madden 07 (American football) to install. Also was pleasant surprised that steel panthers:world at war played full screen with crossover. I was never able to do that with play on linux. I also found simcity so I may dust it off too.
Usually searched the winedb to see if it was supported and found that a lot of the apps I wanted to use just didn't work. Have used playonlinux and winetricks, which were quite good. Didn't bother much with Crossover.
The last two years Ive moved a lot of windows people to linux. I have been getting a lot of emails from people about doing their taxes. I happened to see a older article today on itsfoss about crossover. They have nothing up to date on tax software.
i did investigate the hr block website and nowhere on their site is there any mention of linux capability. also, i looked at the crossover site to see any connection to hr block and it doesnt appear to be in use by crossover. that is why i looked at other tax programs ( mind you i was looking at canadian programs)
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