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Trading on Linux
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You might try this solution for OLE in Linux.
Ie. you need to install the package named "oletools" (or a similar such package, depending on your Linux distribution):
The following articles are very old, maybe not of much of help nowadays:
https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=430194
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17399646/is-win32ole-supported-in-linux
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Nice. I tried Xfce but KDE Neon is just prettier and everything is ultra fast with the animations turned off.
There just isn't much fat to cut off if at all with the animations off.
I really like having a user account that is not for screwing around surfing the web but for productivity. That has really been a good boost for me.
There just isn't much fat to cut off if at all with the animations off.
I really like having a user account that is not for screwing around surfing the web but for productivity. That has really been a good boost for me.
That's good to know. I use a very simple and lightweight desktop called LXDE (or LXQt). It lacks such a user switching feature, but I wrote my own solution many years ago. I too have assigned multiple dummy users to some of the security critical applications like web browsers (3, each used with a different user
This method is not that secure compared to running a virtual machine for each such application, but is easier to do and eats much less resources (disk space, memory etc.)
It works great on Kubuntu but I usually just end up using the web interface anyway for order entry.
Very old school way. The much better way today is to run a windows OS and run a Linux distro inside a subsystem via wsl2. Or docker also works quite well on windows now running Linux based processes inside containers. Of course for die hard windows haters or those who can't afford a windows license (chuckle chuckle) this won't be an acceptable solution.
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Aside that many originally windows based applications that were later ported to Mac really SUCK. Even the largest such apps, ms office for mac, horribly lacks features that every windows user enjoys. Try to configure tab stop positions in ms word for Mac, good luck.
What do you mean by "general optimization"?
Optimizations in backtestings, or do you rather mean program optimizations as done when compiling/building a program?
Ie. are you saying the same application is slower on Linux than on Mac or Windows?
Hard to believe, IMO.
Can you quantify it? How much % slower?
Do you maybe mean Windows applications running in an emulator (WINE) on Linux? These are of course slower
Why would you want to run a virtual machine with windows or use wine on Linux if the app does not natively support Linux? Makes zero sense other than being locked in a religious OS crusade.
Oh goodness, that coming from a Linux fan boy who dissed windows to breath the fresh air of freedom and choices? Now you criticize that windows does not have an app store of the same capacity as the one for some Linux distro? Funny. By the way the app repository on Linux by far does not work for all distros, as always you need to tweak and adjust, and fix, and customize, and patch just to get your Linux OS running the way you want. I don't have time to waste on an OS and it's gimmicks.
Nowadays a package manager is a must-to-have in any OS. It manages dependencies among program components (program and library versions etc, ie. to avoid the "DLL hell" of Windows
Debian and Ubuntu Linux have now for more than 20 years a really powerful package manager (called apt).
Not even Micro$oft has managed to create such an important component yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager
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Ian Murdock had commented that package management is "the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry", that it blurs the boundaries between operating system and applications, and that it makes it "easier to push new innovations [...] into the marketplace and [...] evolve the OS".[21]
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For people who have too much time on their hand? Why would anyone with clear time constraints in life ever waste precious hours hacking an OS and tweak a million things just to get a few apps running? Unless of course you are an OS developer. I never figured out why ordinary people without any real need for Linux switch over from windows. Money constraints is a big lie given they happily spend a multiple on other bullshit in life. Security, safety? Nope, not anymore. Freedom, open source? Not needed for average users. Begs the question to me why linux for anyone unless you are a coder /developer or have very specific needs that only Linux satisfies.
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I have 8 hardware monitors. Do I still need Linux? I have dark theme, do I need Linux? I have a blazing fast OS called windows 11, do I need Linux? I never had a system crash in many years, use a standard suite of apps every single day, everything works perfectly fine with 128gb memory, a fast 8 core cpu, and mirrored nvme drives. Am I missing anything by not having Linux?