Studio and Chrome OS -- possible or not? Anybody gone down the rabbit hole?

[Paul Mulroney]

Hi Doug,

Many years ago we played a bit with crossover, and getting Omnis 7 for windows to run on MacOS and Linux using crossover. It was a bit strange - opening a droplist drove CPU usage to 100%, things like that.  More recently we tried using Wine on a relatively recent version of MacOSX (El-capitan?  It's been a while...), and again, it allows you to run Omnis but it feels a bit clunky.

Regards,
Paul.


> On 8 Aug 2019, at 12:28 am, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com> wrote:
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> Hi all:
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> Occasionally I get the question - got a donated Chromebook, can I your software (i.e. Omnis RT) on it.    The question is happening more frequently recently as are clients are not for profits, so they get donated equipment.   (And before you ask — yes, donated equipment is usually something that somebody else does not want for some good reason so they give it a way)
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> I’ve always said no.    but today I thought I’d just go to google and see if the world has changed.
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> I hit this web page: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3276329/everything-you-knew-about-chromebooks-is-wrong.html <https://www.computerworld.com/article/3276329/everything-you-knew-about-chromebooks-is-wrong.html>
> Implication, YES, you can run windows software on chrome os.    
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> Interesting, what’s the catch?
> You need what is essentially a VM for chrome oS like https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-chromeos <https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-chromeos>
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> Even more interesting — could this work?  
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> What I wanted to ask is if anybody has gone down this rabbit hole and tried to 
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> 1) make omnis studio work on any sort of chrome device 
> 2) succeeded in any measure (and if so, what are the gotcha’s).
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> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
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