9/19/2023 0 Comments Wine on linux lite![]() ![]() ![]() I have an old Toshiba netbook which had XP and was never really very fast but with a 32 bit version of LINUX light it works fine. It's very light on resources and is ideal for updating machines which either don't work or struggle on the latest Windows. It's very similar to Windows in its presentation & that makes the transition very easy for non-geeks. I've had very good experience with LINUX lite distro. The other day I tried out some p&f on a mate's gaming machine with 32gb RAM on an I7 and it didn't even notice whilst it was streaming movies, unicycling along the bar-top, juggling plates and singing Abide with Me.impressive stuff ![]() I don't need that much but when I'm doing multiple p&f charts in real time things are painfully slow with the mere 4 I have atm and it is more a memory problem than a processor one.I've a 3rd (or 4th, I forget which) gen I7 which should still be quite nippy. I made another discovery recently in that I found that my Lenovo will take muuuuch more RAM than the advertised 8gb max, i.e 16gb. I need to do some more serious testing (wine et al) before I take the plunge but simply haven't got around to it. I'm looking into various flavours of Linux to put on the Msata and it seems that whomsoever I talk to has nothing but praise for their particular distro.be it, Puppy, Tiny or Lite. I intend to go that route as well - i.e swap the main clunker drive for an SSD with enough space to give me common storage as well as a Windows OS. Main storage (old-fashioned spinning hard drives) is now incredibly cheap but it looks as if it's only a matter of time before they will be entirely replaced by SSD. Because it only needs to contain the OS it doesn't have to be big (240 GB more than adequate) and is therefore very cheap. While on IT matters, the best improvement I made some time ago to my desktop was to replace the OS hard drive with SSD. She uses hers on the desktop and it's perfect for light office work and browsing as is – for more serious work I just hook up a bigger monitor. I picked up a couple of ex-corporate models (seemingly barely used) – very cheaply one each for myself and her Ladyship. Later I also saw data reports that some of the unknown/unbranded and even cheaper SSDs outperformed the big names at a similar price point! It's amazing how good the old Dell latitude E6410 (still) is with i-5 processor. In the end I just swapped in a cheapo 120 GB SSD – That particular laptop is only used for presentations so the only spec I'm really interested in with the SSD is read speed (take as long as it wants to write!) and the dead cheap Kingston compared very favourably with anything in its price bracket. If I'm telling you what you've already worked out for yourself – apologies! Nevertheless it will be interesting to see if you can make progress with this – keep us updated! The disadvantage is that it's a more inconvenient solution. My experience with Linux-lite (although derived from Debian/Ubuntu) is that it's very well integrated and it might therefore be worth giving it a go before moving on to another distro that can be run from a memory stick.Īnother solution could be to run MT4 in a Windows virtual machine (but you will need a version – any version that runs MT4 ok – of windows with a license key to keep it working) – Again Linux-lite has a very good integrated VM. My 1st suggestion would be to try running MT4 on a different distro – you could do this on a different PC or from a memory stick on your laptop which would obviate the need for installation. (I'm assuming it works perfectly on Windows). From your symptoms it's difficult to know whether the fault is with Wine or your Linux distribution. I find Wine to be variable in how it runs Windows programs – sometimes perfect, sometimes almost okay and sometimes not at all. I'm not an MT4 user although I do use Linux – so this is just a guess which may/may not be helpful.
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