Fine by me except I have to do maintenance on a doctor’s system. The practice management software can only run on Windows and it’s far too difficult to switch. And the Microsoft accounts fuck up the practice management software. It’s incredibly stupid.
Yeah it’d be nice if big companies would develop for Linux instead of being in Microsoft’s pocket. Unfortunately until windows stops being developed they won’t care…
I’m going to give it a try this year on my own time, but I can’t really bill a client for time dicking around with getting obscure medical software to work in Wine. Also you get zero support from the software company if you have a nonstandard install.
I think the best option would be to take the most minimum windows version that can run the software, and run that inside of an emulator. Once you get everything installed and working I would back that image up so you can restore it later if anything goes wrong.
I just did this using IOT LTSC 10 in so my friend could run Quickbooks2016 (he didn’t want Win11). He’s been really happy with it (Mint and VirtualBox). I’m a Linux newb and found it pretty painless to set up.
Those terms are acceptable to me.
Fine by me except I have to do maintenance on a doctor’s system. The practice management software can only run on Windows and it’s far too difficult to switch. And the Microsoft accounts fuck up the practice management software. It’s incredibly stupid.
Yeah it’d be nice if big companies would develop for Linux instead of being in Microsoft’s pocket. Unfortunately until windows stops being developed they won’t care…
Wine?
I’m going to give it a try this year on my own time, but I can’t really bill a client for time dicking around with getting obscure medical software to work in Wine. Also you get zero support from the software company if you have a nonstandard install.
I think the best option would be to take the most minimum windows version that can run the software, and run that inside of an emulator. Once you get everything installed and working I would back that image up so you can restore it later if anything goes wrong.
Heheh that’s not far away from what I’m doing
I just did this using IOT LTSC 10 in so my friend could run Quickbooks2016 (he didn’t want Win11). He’s been really happy with it (Mint and VirtualBox). I’m a Linux newb and found it pretty painless to set up.
Mint is great!