Got theWord6 running in Ubuntu in a VM

[R3fl3ctors]

Hello from Christchurch in New Zealand

I'm very grateful for this software and have been been using it for a few months, and it has been a gift from God. I'm learning programming and can appreciate the amazing amount of work that went into creating theWord6 program. Truly amazing!

I wanted to post for the sake of any others who are switching away from Windows to Linux. [I believe there's an exodus escalating which will mean a lot of people will be wanting to run theWord6 on linux this year and are new to linux]

I am currently running ubuntu 22 in a virtual machine on windows10 using hyper-v while I learn linux terminal CLI [so I don't break anything permanently as a newbie]. Just setting all this up was kind of daunting without any prior knowledge.

Yesterday I learned how to use flatpaks and Bottles [rather than wine] and successfully installed with theWord6.
+ Bottles also allows you to easily add dependencies without trying to hunt down your own fonts, there's an allfonts dependency add-on.
When I first used the executable the Greek and Hebrew wasn't working, thankfully it's an easy fix in bottles.

If anyone finds this and is trying to do the same thing, I just want to encourage you that it is possible, and don't give up. There are tutorials online for how to install things, you will need to be patient.

P.S. Has anyone here got it working on an Arch based LInux distro?

[Jeff]

Does the Clipboard Monitor in tW interface with native Linux apps such as LibreOffice and a browser? I wouldn't want to lose that feature.

What are the advantages of using flatpaks and Bottles over Wine? Security?

I've never thought of using flatpaks and Bottles for tW, and wouldn't know where to begin. In fact, I've avoided flatpaks, but would use them if I couldn't find software I needed to work for OS, or you convince me it's better than using Wine.

I'm using MX Linux (Debian based) with Wine. Been using it exclusively for around 7 years, haven't missed Windows very much.

Thanks for the ideas and welcome to the forum!

[R3fl3ctors]

Hello, thanks for the welcome

I ended up installing linux mint instead and got the Word working in there, with bottles again, but found mint to be buggy to the point of being unusable so I switched to Fedora last night and went through the whole process again. My biggest struggles have been boot loaders and usb tools to flash the distros that work with UEFI and GPT for certain distros [had to read a lot of documentation and forum posts the last few days]
I have ended up running each distro from different partitions on an ext HDD rather than a true dual install on this HP laptop, making it harder because I had to learn how to partition and the bios menu isn't the easiest thing to navigate - but it works. I asked God to help me, I am sure he took pity on me haha

Fedora is running theWord6 perfectly, again in bottles through wine - I used it because I'm a beginner with linux and it seemed easier, I don't know how to set up everything manually yet but I'm learning new things every day. Bottles just keeps it all containerized and has preset dependencies like fonts and it installs wine inside of itself and seems very newbie proof. If wine works for you I wouldn't say you should change, if it works that's great

I am struggling to get theWord to run at the right size, it's very small, I made the text bigger where I could but the actual program is tiny - it was the same in the other distros. I think there's a way to solve it using the settings in Bottles but I have to figure out how.

I must say Fedora 42 [which just released] is very polished, it looks like a macOS environment, and is very responsive. Bonus that it supports flatpak out of the box too, and things just work without tweaking.