CS3 photoshop, illustrator, flash, and aftereffects so I can drag my girlfriend to linux. <br><br>Thanks :D<br><br>(Sorry for the dupe Jaap, hit the wrong reply button.)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 17, 2008 10:07 PM, Jaap Stolk <<a href="mailto:jwstolk@gmail.com">jwstolk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Feb 17, 2008 11:57 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles <<a href="mailto:pgquiles@elpauer.org">pgquiles@elpauer.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>> AutoCAD, please<br>><br><br>I spend a lot of time trying to get autocad (2004) to run on Wine.<br>There where some small problems like registry things and with Internet<br>Explorer dependencies, but those where easy to solve. The big problem<br>
is that the copy protection (and the anti-debugging tricks in it) run<br>as a couple of windows drivers and do things that are far from<br>"normal" in Windows. It is also very picky about almost everything,<br>and does not generate any timely or useful error messages. (it just<br>
exits at the very end, without any clue about what went wrong.)<br>Without the copy protection I'm sure autocad would run just fine with<br>Wine. Newer autocad versions use .NET as well, which could be more<br>complicated. (And no, "p2p" versions still have all the copy<br>
protection and anti-debugging tricks. )<br><br>Personally (as a programmer), I think my time would be better spend on<br>many of the open-source CAD programs.<br>(Or ask rhino3d very nicely if they want to make a Linux version. please. :-)<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>jaap.<br><br><br></font></blockquote></div><br>