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Hi, Mark:
"Thing is, knowing the independence of Ecco users in general (me included) and your dis-love for MS in particular, tying yourself to a single cloud entity with monthly rent doesn't sound exactly like an Ecco replacement for many of us, if you know what I mean :-)"
Yeah. You're right. Thing is, I have too much industry experience to fall for this "cloud" bullshit. In 2000, I worked for three high-tech companies that were shot out from under me. Just look at what happened with NetManage and ECCO! We're lucky that we've been able to at least download our legacy application in perpetuity so as to be able to continue to work with this superb application.
It makes sense to me for government and large businesses to use their software under revolving leases, intensively-supported by experienced, responsive vendors. But for me, as a private individual, I've learned to keep my data and my software on my own hard drive, under my own control.
"To your situation - Short of finding a direct Linux replacement for Ecco and assuming SS launches with an Ecco+EE feature set and has been de-bugged ...
according to the Docs, the developers are going to launch w/ Mac support under Crossover.
https://storyserver.polywickstudio.ph/ss/thd-crossover.html https://storyserver.polywickstudio.ph/ss/thd-crossover.html
"So there's no reason why SS won't work under Linux, right?"
Well, we just don't know. Crossover (for Windows and Mac) is sort-of a commercial re-working of Wine (Wine, although they deny it, is a Windows emulator). Wine, like Windows, is continuously in development, and we never can be sure, in advance, whether a particular new app will work well with it. Wine, like the rest of us, has to play a continuous game of catch-up with Microsoft.
Meanwhile, my trusty old ECCO Pro is running capably in Linux Mint with the xfce desktop, within Wine v4.0, which is the latest Wine version. I've in integrated my 20-year existing ECCO data file flawlessly and easily into this environment. Getting Wine installed onto this system, however, has been extremely difficult: there is a lot of stale, and just plain wrong information out there on the Web about how to install Wine, and Wine, itself, isn't exactly a user-friendly app. This is just a heads-up to Linux-Windows newcomers.