[Nerd alert! This is gonna be a bit technical 
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Been an enthusiastic (Debian) Linux user for 10 years now and haven't really used another OS since (except for Android on mobile devices, yet that's basically Linux too).
The single piece of software that I really want to have and use, yet is not available for Linux natively, is Chairgun (it runs on Windows, iOS and Android though).
I used to run it under Wine, an emulator for Windows software on Linux, yet that's a bit cumbersome. I wanted to run it directly on Linux. As it's java software, this should be feasible, so that's exactly what I've been fiddling around with. As I had no knowlegde about Java whatsoever this took a bit of time, however it works now :-D.
Well, it works for 95% let's say. Because of the fact that they coded with absolute Windows paths here and there (ugh...) some things still need to be worked out. Main issue is that the software expects the pellet database (a spreadsheet basically) to be on a specific location on a Windows file system. One can use a custom database, and this works, however I haven't been able to save it yet.
No idea how exactly I can fix this, but I should be able to.
Anyway, quite the introduction - what I wanted to say is, if there's people here who want to do the same thing, ask away in this thread and I'll explain what I came up with. If, on the other hand, you have experience with Java or coding in general, let me know - I'm a system admin, not a programmer, so advice would come in handy!
]Been an enthusiastic (Debian) Linux user for 10 years now and haven't really used another OS since (except for Android on mobile devices, yet that's basically Linux too).
The single piece of software that I really want to have and use, yet is not available for Linux natively, is Chairgun (it runs on Windows, iOS and Android though).
I used to run it under Wine, an emulator for Windows software on Linux, yet that's a bit cumbersome. I wanted to run it directly on Linux. As it's java software, this should be feasible, so that's exactly what I've been fiddling around with. As I had no knowlegde about Java whatsoever this took a bit of time, however it works now :-D.
Well, it works for 95% let's say. Because of the fact that they coded with absolute Windows paths here and there (ugh...) some things still need to be worked out. Main issue is that the software expects the pellet database (a spreadsheet basically) to be on a specific location on a Windows file system. One can use a custom database, and this works, however I haven't been able to save it yet.
No idea how exactly I can fix this, but I should be able to.
Anyway, quite the introduction - what I wanted to say is, if there's people here who want to do the same thing, ask away in this thread and I'll explain what I came up with. If, on the other hand, you have experience with Java or coding in general, let me know - I'm a system admin, not a programmer, so advice would come in handy!
