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

[Paul Mulroney]

Hi Doug,

Sorry to sidetrack the conversation - what I was trying to say is that the crossover software is probably the same on ChromeOS as on Mac or Linux, so it's theoretically possible to run Studio, in which case you'll probably encounter similar issues as we did.

Regards,
Paul.


> On 8 Aug 2019, at 10:43 pm, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul et al.
> 
> I’m really looking for something to make Studio run on a Chromebooks using chrome os (android).
> 
> 
> 
> (the conversation got diverted to classic on OSX — a different, but probably equally useful problem to solve).
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> 
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
> 
>> On August 7, 2019, at 5:52 PM, Paul Mulroney <pmulroney at logicaldevelopments.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> 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:
>>> 
>>> Hi all:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.    
>>> 
>>> 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>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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 
>>> 
>>> 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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