I am new to Endless os, Linux in general.
Always using Windows.
Well, I quiet love this new thing
But I do still miss some programs/apps.
Like Picasa (I know it’s no longer available, but you still can get is somewhere, already have an .exe file ready)
I did some research and came out on something called wine.
Looks like for Endless, this is now Phoenicis ?
Problem here is I have no idea how to use this?
Is there a possibility to launch an .exe file true this?
Just want to install and use Picasa.
you can’t directly, as EOS is Linux based and does not support running Windows Applications Out-of-the-Box.
If you really need to run Windows applications, you have to run “Wine” - which is a Windows Runtime Environment for Linux inside a Podman container.
To install such a Podman container, follow this Tutorial:
When finished, you can install Wine inside this container. I haven’t written a EOS specific tutorial for this yet, but there are plenty Tutorials out there in the wild - google for “Ubuntu Wine Tutorial”.
haha Yes I know Sometimes change is a good thing lol
But then again, being a windows user for whole my life and starting with Linux is already a nice step
I tried the XnView along with several other programs, but still haven’t found what I’m looking for.
What I use Picasa for is: I have to make a lot of images the same size by cropping them, so they have a standard size. I can choose which part of he image I want to be visible. Then can save them all.
After that I need to resize them all to a specific size which I use Pics resizer.
If I can find something similar, I don’t need Picasa or Pics resizer. But I do now
For Batch-style transformations, you can use the Image Viewer “Nomacs”. It’s currently not available in the Appcenter, but as i use it on a regular basis, i’ve created a Flatpak which can be installed directlry in EOS.
I want to try this. I downloaded the zip file and is now extracted.
But how do I install? Where do I have to type for the flatpak to install?
I’m, sorry, but I’m totally new in this.