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So... What make it's different from PlayOnLinux or Bottles or Winetricks ?
They can't run Adobe. This runs a full VM constantly in the background that you can pop up when you want to use the Windows desktop to install things etc. It's a completely different set up. It can also run ArcGIS Pro, which the other methods can't.
So this can run latest MS OFFICE and Adobe Suite you say ??
It can even run pirated versions, don't ask me how I know! 🏴☠️
That's even better !!!
yar har har
Why would you want that though....
Well it's not my own choice, my office has standards.
And if it can run FL Studio, adios to dual boot. 😄
FL Studio and most VSTs already work in WINE.
ESRI sucks horribly, getting away from that trash is a good idea.
There is no good use case for that crap.
Lmao, agreed. QGIS is my main, but there's some things I need via the enterprise side/legacy files. It gathers dust more often than not these days.
That company is just a cult more than anything else. It irks me to no end that they require a license to do anything. Edit? More money. Spatial Analysis? Even more money. Oh you want to share that thing you made? Lets get you started on the cloud/portal/server plan. Oh you want that server to have any kind of uptime? Better buy the monitor tool!
Everywhere you turn with those ass hats it is another license, more bugs, and slower.
I move almost all GIS functions into SQL. Postgis is a miracle worker and foreign data wrappers in postgres are just awesome. If I need a viewer/editor than Qgis is fanstastic too.
ESRI has the nerve to come up with a way to make web pages and call them "Story Maps". Get the hell out, that is just a web page!
But their cult loves to belong, and think that GIS means ESRI. They are like addicts.
I really need to learn PostGIS. Got any tips?
If you don't know SQL at all, that is where you will need to start.
If you know enough to get the idea and are ready to go further than this might help https://postgis.net/documentation/training/
and this is the best book on the subject: PostGIS In Action https://postgis.us/
Postgresql is the database, Postgis is an extension. All modern databases are spatial, but postgis adds so much more. For example, maybe you reproject something with ArcGIS. In Postgis you simply select with the new projection on the fly.
You can clip, linear reference, compare, etc, all the spatial functions you do in a gis tool. Raster, vector, point data, etc.
I appreciate you. 💚
me running adobe ps cc 2023 in wine for the last 2 years: * stares in doubt
I've tried and failed to get adobe ps or lr working through wine, do you have a guide you followed or something I could try?
https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux
iirc I used this one
How different is it, then, functionality-wise, from VirtualBox or VMWare?
None, you're essentially putting that in the background without a display. I think the app works by tunneling the windows app into a little display window... I assume. I think it has to be a trick with displays, when I consider what I know by breaking mine a lot. :') Someone smarter than me on ths can correct me.
Unlike the Wine based stuff (Bottles, Winetricks), this runs actual Windows as a VM. So compatibility will be far better though performance will be worse.
And it comes with all the downsides that Windows does.