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BaudouinVH 4 hours ago

how complicated would a port to linux be ?

happycube 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I prompted Claude Opus 5 (I don't really have the Fable tokens to spare) to do just that (via winelib). It's gotten to the point where it opens, runs for three seconds, and abruptly exits.

edit: got it running but a ton of things are do-nothing, and the fonts are completely rubbish. Not really worth posting ATM, but I'll see if it can fix things further by running the UI tests and telling it some of the things that don't work...

(That it was able to build and run at all with just a few prompts is a HFS moment, though!)

pythonRon 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This was the first thing that crossed my mind when I read about this port. It's heartening to find out I'm not the only one!

firesteelrain 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just use WINE?

pythonRon 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A native Linux application would be preferable, even if it does work with WINE (which I don't know... yet).

snarfy 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Win32 is Linux's only stable ABI.

shakna 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Afraid 16bit Word versions have a "Garbage" rating on Wine.

firesteelrain 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I guess I misunderstood. It was ported to 64bit I thought

wolfi1 3 hours ago | parent [-]

was my impression as well