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| Posted: 01:58am 03 May 2026 |
OK hit another hurdle.
Finding CachyOS very easy to use, friendly, apps install easy, solid desktop.
But, and there's always a but in Linux for me, there's a issue with Wine and the apps I need to run.
See I installed Paint Shop Pro and Dreamweaver in Wine 11, easy to do. Both open and run. When I go to open a file in Paint Shop Pro, the file open dialog has no support for thumbnails. So I need to know the file name, I cant browse for the image. In Dreamweaver, if I need to add a icon or picture to a page I'm working on, same deal, no thumbnails, just file names.
A bit of research, yep, this is a Wine thing. It uses its own cut down file dialog that does not support thumbnails. Tried a few suggested options, none work. The overall consensus is I need to have a Linux file dialog open at the same time, and use that to get the name of the thumbnail, then open that file name in my app. Ridiculous.
I also tried Winboat, which is like a VM / container with Windows installed. It sort of works, apps open as though they are on the Linus desktop, you dont need to open the Windows desktop to use them. I opened a paint program, went to open a file, and got a thumbnail. A generic thumbnail of a image icon, not the actual image. Arghhhh!
So, back to Windows, again.