01-29-2013, 08:36 AM
(01-29-2013, 06:32 AM)Phaze Wrote: Thankfully WINE is making this issue... well, less of an issue! We'll probably never see 100% compatibility but outside of the more obscure programs, we'll hopefully see equivalent programs or better WINE compatibility on Linux in the future as more users adopt it.
Or maybe some people will actually port their programs over, who knows
Yeah, I think eventually FlashDevelop will become ported for Linux, being open-source I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet, although it does increase the chances for the future. I think there are other AS3 IDEs that support Linux that I haven't tried but I'm just really comfortable with FD. Apparently there's a special mod to install in on Linux to run almost natively in Wine (i.e. not emulating Windows) so that might be an option.
As for the obscure programs, some of them will never get ported over since it's stuff like a small .exe that I found in a .zip on a Russian website that extracts .wjh files from a .ukz (fictional example). Stuff that one guy whipped up and posted on a forum for another guy who asked for it. One example is a program I use to extract Bastion .pkg files, in fact there wasn't even an .exe and I had to actually install Visual C#, download the source code and compile it myself. For stuff like that I really need Windows (and this happens surprisingly often).
Anyway doesn't really matter, I don't really have much of a choice currently anyway. But yeah I forgot about WINE so thanks for the reminder.