On 12/24/2024 8:01 AM, Richard D via groups.io wrote:
I don't know much about Appimages or how much work creating them involves, but they seem to run on any OS without installation,
It seems to run "on many Linuxes"; no mention of Mac or Win.
"It aims to allow the installation of binary software independently of specific Linux distributions... one AppImage can be installed and run across Ubuntu, Arch, and Red Hat<snip> without needing to use different files"
And the easier it is for the user, I'd bet the harder it is for the programmer.
There used to be a free/not-free tool to run some Windows on Mac and Linux? Wine? Crossover? Parallels? There are virtual machines to run Intel code on other hardware and O/Ses- I can even run Win10 on my Win7 machine. My Oracle VM VirtualBox is getting old and wobbly but there is a newer release. Access to Windows installation ISOs is pretty easy.
I am seeing minimal-spec Windows machines under $300, which is not pocket change, but may be less than a serious power supply you want to model. Your neighbors are throwing-out Win-machines: our thrift store has a pile of Win10 Dells the local warehouse upgraded from. Remember that PSDU2 always ran fine on old Win7, which your friends should not be using on today's internet (copy the install file on an uptodate machine to a thumb drive, then sneaker-net to the Win7 box).
Paul Reid