BibleWorks 10.0 on ChromeOS

[rxperry]

Just an FYI for those interested. This is not a supported environment for Bibleworks but I wanted to share it.

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I use chromebooks a lot and for a while was booting developer mode to run BibleWorks. Codeweavers created CrossOver to run windows apps on ChromeOS. I am running BibleWorks 10 (not everything installed) on an ASUS C302 Chromebook. I am working with CodeWeavers to publish an official BibleWorks 10 install profile (they have BW 9 currently).

Rob

[RandomSF]

That's very good to know. Thanks!

[stevedaley]

Actually, I'm hoping that this can be a direction that BW10 could pursue. I got BW10 installed tonight on Debian Linux 9.4 which should be supported for at least another year or two, and future versions of Debian Linux will not be radically different than the current version. I would think if BW10 can run well under Wine (Crossover being the commercial version of Wine) this might be a much more stable version less prone to changes made in the Windows operating system.

I wasn't using Crossover tonight, but PlayonLinux which is basically a GUI interface to make working with Wine easier. This install went okay, and the first run went fine too, but when I started it a second and third time, I don't have any images for any of the toolbars. I'm not sure how to fix that.

If you are able to get all of BW10 features to work under Crossover, I will pay the extra to get Crossover to run BW10. I hope we can get BW10 running well under Wine/Crossover.

[culturedpleat]

Just an FYI for those interested. This is not a supported environment for Bibleworks but I wanted to share it.

Please remove this post if I should not being posting this here.

I use chromebooks a lot and for a while was booting developer mode to run BibleWorks. Codeweavers created CrossOver to run windows apps on ChromeOS. I am running BibleWorks 10 (not everything installed) on an ASUS C302 Chromebook. I am working with CodeWeavers to publish an official BibleWorks 10 install profile (they have BW 9 currently). mario games

Rob

I'm crossing my fingers that this is a potential path for BW10 to go. This evening, I installed BW10 on Debian Linux 9.4, which will be supported for at least another year or two, and which will not be drastically different from previous versions of Debian Linux. If BW10 can operate well in Wine (Crossover is the commercial version of Wine), then it may be significantly less vulnerable to changes in the Windows OS.

[stevedaley]

I run Bibleworks 10 (version = 10.0.8.755) under Wine on Fedora 37 which is the latest version of Fedora Linux, and this was after an upgrade from Fedora 36. Although it crashes sometimes, for the most part it works. I use the notes tab a lot, and I have noticed a few issues with the notes tabs under Wine.
1. Bullet lists do not appear or work properly when note file is imported from Bibleworks 10 running on a Windows box.
I work around this issue by just starting a new paragraph with "- " to act as a bulleted manual list.
2. Internal links to Bible passages don't work either.
I work around this issue by copying and pasting the actual Bible passage in the version that I desire into the note file, this works using the toolbar feature in the notes tabs that copies the specified Bible passage in the selected version to the clipboard and then pasting the passage into the note window using the paste command.
3. There seem to be other clipboard issues as well, but I can't reproduce them at this time.

It might be a good idea to start a thread with everyone who is using Bibleworks on Wine on Linux, and find out what are all of the issues and what are the work arounds we have been using, then people who install it on different versions of Wine or different versions of Linux could test to see if they are seeing the same thing and could give better feedback to the Wine developers and Codeweavers. I would love to see Codeweavers with an install path for Bibleworks 10 that would work well on any Linux distro, I would purchase Codeweavers if that happens. Right now I'm using the free Wine version at this time.