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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If you o use InDesign, you really do have to look at the code and most likely edit it. I've seen what eBooks look like under the hood coming from InDesign and they are not nice. They are a bit of mess.
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Probably looks fine in ADE at least.
That's actually my point, just working is fine, but I rather spend at little more time to learn some CSS and html and get something cleaner that I have more control over.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Prior to Calibre 4.x, there have been more support issues with Linux and OS X then Windows and there are more Windows users then Linux and OS X combined.
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I would expect more bugs as there's more heterogeneity among the distros compared to Windows, but there are other reasons also like the main devs being on Windows (not sure if this is the case for calibre, but I seen it with other software), Linux user being more prone to report bugs, and some distros having old and sometimes bad versions in their repositories. That's actually the reason I chose Manjaro over Mint, at the time Manjaro had the latest calibre and Mint a very old version.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That said, I do know about Linux and prefer Windows. I prefer when things just work. I'm not a fan of VM. I would suggest dual-booting and use a proper Windows 64-bit.
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Unlike Linux users who really hate things working!
I don't bother with VM:s either. My use case for ADE is opening it for 30 seconds to let it download a book and occasionally transferring it to my Kobo, both which works fine in Wine. I haven't experienced any bugs in calibre or sigill. I don't see why I, or most other people, would need to boot to Windows for anything ebooks.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Actually, Catalina makes OS X no longer just work. They have the signed vs. unsigned installers so if you don't know the work around you would not be able ot install some things like Sigil and Calibre. Also, no more 32-bit programs so that means no more ADE 2.0.1.
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I was worried of Microsoft going in the same direction with their store and UWP, but they seem to have changed their minds (at least for now). But it's still a good reason to use an open OS, if the company making your distro make changes you don't like you just switch to a different one, or someone will create a fork that suits you.