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Originally Posted by radius
If ADE is a pain, can't you run Kobo's desktop software (or even the legacy Sony Reader desktop software) under Wine instead? They are both able to login to the Kobo book store. Sony's reader software even works as a generic Adobe DRM epub reader IIRC.
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To be honest I think it's wine that's the pain.
My aim is to be as vendor agnostic as I can.
I am using a VM to run ADE in which means I can now purchase books from Amazon or any of the vendors that use Adobe DRM (Kobo, Google play etc.), strip the DRM in Calibre on Linix and load the book onto the reader of my choice.
The VM solution works well and I have installed a couple of other windows apps that I need for other things on it and they all run fine. The only problem I had was getting it to see my USB ports but a search on Google sorted that out. The VM option is much better than wine IMHO.
I'd be interested to hear other opinions on wine vs VM though if anyone has any leanings either way?
For me it seems that anything I wanted to run in wine was just problematic. In the VM it just seems to work. That is for the apps I have run on it so far, those being: ADE, Calibre and Logitech's remote control management software).