Hi All,
What exactly is the difference between Cross Over Office and Wine?
My impression has always been that Cross Over was exactly Wine with an expensive wrapper and a tech support call center?
What am I missing?
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What is the difference between cross over and wine?
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ToddAndMargo2
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Re: What is the difference between cross over and wine?
Crossover's Wine build includes some hacks for their supported apps that are not included in plain Wine.
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ToddAndMargo2
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Re: What is the difference between cross over and wine?
I have some 4 years old bugs reported in Wine. Are the Corssover folks am better/faster at fixing bugs?dimesio wrote:Crossover's Wine build includes some hacks for their supported apps that are not included in plain Wine.
Re: What is the difference between cross over and wine?
They're the same people; Codeweavers employs many of the Wine core developers. I assume that, as a business, Codeweavers pays attention to what their paying customers need, including bugs that affect the apps/games they officially support.
You really should be asking these questions on their forum.
You really should be asking these questions on their forum.
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ToddAndMargo2
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Re: What is the difference between cross over and wine?
Put their trial on Scientific Linux 7.1. Lotus Approach crashes on start up. Poop!dimesio wrote:They're the same people; Codeweavers employs many of the Wine core developers. I assume that, as a business, Codeweavers pays attention to what their paying customers need, including bugs that affect the apps/games they officially support.
You really should be asking these questions on their forum.
