27th November 2016, 16:31
(27th November 2016, 3:44)kdemeoz Wrote: Hi kneo. I know i'm avoiding your specific question [but i trust others more knowledgeable than me might be able to help on that]. I wanted to ask though if an acceptable workaround for you could possibly be either of these:
1. Rather than Crossover [which is built atop Wine, i think], could you simply try PlayOnLinux [which definitely is built atop Wine]? My own experience with PoL is decidedly chequered, with it being pathetic for Outlook 2010 [yes it ran, but would crash frequently, almost always causing data loss, & occasionally corrupting my PST; in between crashes it seemed kinda sorta ok, but several key OL functions didn't work]. Conversely, whilst it's been very tricky to get right, & i must use it in a very specific way otherwise plasmashell goes nuts, i am able finally to run MyPhoneExplorer in PoL in Maui.
2. Do you happen to have a licensed copy of any MS OS compatible with your target MS pgm? If so, is it viable for you to run your pgm in said MS OS in a VirtualBox or VMWare virtual machine? After i migrated from the MS narrowverse to the Linux multiverse a few years ago, until only a month or two ago i still had to fire up one of my Windows VMs [shudder] every day for Outlook [til i abandoned it earlier this year for a full Linux PIM solution], & til very recently also for MPE [til i sussed it out in PoL]. Whilst one might feel "dirty" for still having to touch Windows in Linux (i did], it was nonetheless a viable workaround [that said, i was so pleased once my migration was complete so i no longer need Windows VMs for anything].
I realise you've probably already thought of both those ideas, & ruled them out... but just in case not i thought i'd mention them.
kdemeoz,
I have to use Windows at work. I have an older Macbook Pro (2007), an older HP laptop with Windows 10 (with all the encroaching settings turned off (hate all the data collection MS does but the system runs well... and Google for that matter) and an HP AMD laptop with Mint. I love Linux and want to move to Maui since it is just fast and clean. Right now I am back to Min until I can get this resolved.
I tried POL but it wasn't working for this program well. Kind of like your same issues with it.
I also tried Virtualbox but I have a slower AMD HP laptop. Mint runs well, but the added OS and software slow it down. Crossover is the only way I have found to run it smoothly.
Thanks for your insight. I appreciate it.
kneo