So, the good wife Mrs 'Bobface laptop hard-drive finally died and the thing would no longer boot. It sat around for a while. I pulled an old SSD out of my old PC which was about to go in the loft, and popped it in and stuck Ubuntu on it for her to surf the net and all that (this is the 3rd computer this SSD has been in so it's been worth it)
Well, she says "I want my favorite sound editor on this because I paid actual money for it"
And I'm like "Yeah, no that won't happen it's a windows program"
And she's on the makers website like "Look here the programs webpage says just use Wine"
And I'm like "yeah no I have no idea how to do that so don't bother"
Well, long story short she gets PlayOnLinux from the Ubuntu software section, learns it in about 15 minutes and then teaches me how to use it.
I go behind my computer desk and bring out my old CD ROM games that have fallen back there over the years...
I am playing Total Annihilation on my original game disk that I bought in 1998. A 20 year old game-disk and it's playing with no problems at all. I'm amazed - well done Mrs 'Bobface I only wish I could find my copy of Interstate '76.
Well, she says "I want my favorite sound editor on this because I paid actual money for it"
And I'm like "Yeah, no that won't happen it's a windows program"
And she's on the makers website like "Look here the programs webpage says just use Wine"
And I'm like "yeah no I have no idea how to do that so don't bother"
Well, long story short she gets PlayOnLinux from the Ubuntu software section, learns it in about 15 minutes and then teaches me how to use it.
I go behind my computer desk and bring out my old CD ROM games that have fallen back there over the years...
I am playing Total Annihilation on my original game disk that I bought in 1998. A 20 year old game-disk and it's playing with no problems at all. I'm amazed - well done Mrs 'Bobface I only wish I could find my copy of Interstate '76.