Linux Croosover

paradisiac · 19 May 2011 at 09:48

just wondering what this was like and if many people use it?
i have read it supports more than wine does, is this true?
and its paid for, so is the support worth the money?

Huw · 19 May 2011 at 14:30

I have never used Crossover and haven't read about it in years so my info could be out of date. Last I heard it's free as long as you compile it yourself - which I can't help you with because I am CURSED when it comes to compiling software. I just can't do it no matter how hard I try.

If you pay for it, it's much easier to install (presumably you get a precompiled binary) and you get voting rights to decide which games they should support.

Oh and yeah, from what I've read, it does support more than WINE, at least in theory. It's actually built on WINE so theoretically anything that works on Crossover should also work with pure WINE, although presumably it will be a lot more difficult.

craptakular · 19 May 2011 at 20:05

I got Crossover free when they had somesort of birthday thing in 2008 I think, a lot of us on here got it free then.

It's a lot easier installing MS Office with it.

Try the trial.

If your gaming though, just do what we all do and have 1 HDD for linux and 1 HDD for windows for games.

cb_linus · 19 May 2011 at 21:05

Oxy said:
I got Crossover free when they had somesort of birthday thing in 2008 I think, a lot of us on here got it free then.

Crossover 15th birthday sale on now (at time of posting anyway).

edit: and for only £15,000 you can get the platinum edition

Huw · 19 May 2011 at 21:23

Haha, that's quite a package!

cb_linus · 31 Oct 2012 at 19:29

Thread bumpage, Crossover is currently free for a very limited time

http://flock.codeweavers.com/

uvarvu · 31 Oct 2012 at 20:22

Thought about it but crossover needs ia32 libs installed. Last time I tried installing them it screwed up my system!