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@JackTheCat @TheBreadmonkey It depends what you want to do really. In some cases a windows VM will work, but getting data to flow between the VM and your Linux host can be a #PITA. I haven't used VMs on Linux for *quite* a while, but the easiest used to be #VirtualBox. I'd avoid VMWare Workstation, if that's even still a thing.

In my experience, WINE is *usually* the best answer if you can't get a native Linux-based *alternative* program for the thing you want to do. A lot of new Linux users still think in terms of how they used to do things on Windoze, and that will get you a reasonable way, but you'll end up fighting with the fact that Linux simply IS NOT Windoze. It doesn't do much, if anything, like windoze does - particularly at the "binary" level, so native windows programs (.EXEs) simply can't run without something to "pretend" that windoze is really there. That's what WINE does, and although others have tried for DECADES to make a compatability layer, starting with SUN's WABI (Windows Application Binary Interface) back in the 90's. Nobody seems to have managed to get as far as WINE in making it come true, without using a VM.

So before diving into the potential nightmare of "getting $favourite windows program" working on Linux, check out any native alternatives first. If there really *aren't* any native alternatives, and you have a load of windoze apps you absolutely *have* to have, Linux might not be for you.

Them: "So, this calls for vegetable stock and ..."

Definitely-not-me: "Broth."

Them: "... what?"

Definitely-not-me: "Stock is made from bones. If there's no bones in it, it's broth, not stock."

Them: O_o

Definitely-not-me: "Do carrots, celery, and onions have bones?"

Them: "... Why are you like this?"

@BeAware

Thank you so much for your patience with me and responding so imformatively.

And sorry for the way I phrased it, your experience is exactly what I meant.

On phones, which is sometimes, its PitA.

Japanese elderly care specialists have designed seniors apartments with odd and sloping floors for seniors to 'train them' to have better balance, remind them to walk carefully.

It is a step too far, remediation of the remediation is required.

#Thailand’s #Pita to return to #Harvard following 10-year political ban. “…#PitaLimjaroenrat is returning to Harvard University, where he will take up a fellowship & share his lessons from a period of political turmoil that saw his party win a general election, only to be disbanded a year later. The 43-year-old former leader of the now-disbanded #MoveForward Party will become a Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School...” | Straits Times straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/

The Straits Times · Thailand’s Pita to return to Harvard following 10-year political banThe popular politician will take up a fellowship and share his lessons from a period of political turmoil. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Personally I find #retouching in #Darktable a #PITA. Big time.

But today I discovered the Lua-script for engaging #GIMP from within Darktable.

It makes this task a breeze.

It opens GIMP, exports the file to it, you press (for example) C, retouch as needed, overwrite the file (!) from menu, close GIMP.

The edited file is imported back to Darktable and stacked with the original image. Do with it whatever you want.

Pure magic! 😮

The script does not only work for retouching of course.