08-31-2018, 02:57 AM | #1 |
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I am new here I live in Eindhoven in The Netherlands. Planning to start working with Calibre Does the application works better and easier on Microsoft laptops or Apple laptops ? Thanks for your reply. ChrisEhv |
08-31-2018, 03:27 AM | #2 |
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Calibre works equally well on Windows and Mac OS.
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08-31-2018, 03:48 AM | #3 |
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08-31-2018, 05:18 PM | #4 |
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The program itself works, and many plugins as well. Arguably on the same computer the linux version works faster than the equivalent windows version. At least on my own computer most everything works faster in GNU/Linux than on Windows10 with everything that is comparable and natively available on both systems. And yet the linux version of calibre has limitations when certain plugins depend on proprietary software, which is an additional hurdle that should be mentioned.
Proprietary software per se is not even the real problem, unless your philosophy does not make any exceptions allowing installation of non-free on principle. What works, works rather well, but is surely not equally easy to setup. Also depending on your distro your are limited in which version of calibre is readily available in the repository with all dependencies already solved and working. |
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Have to say that installing with the script from download page went flawless and even faster than using the repository. Preliminary so far using calibre with the current 3.30 has even bigger speed advantages to the Windows version than 2.75.1 had. Very nice, all my installed plugins (including the DeDRM one) survived the uninstall of 2.75.1 and reinstall of 3.30 without any need to even set them up again. KFX Output and DOC Input are the only two plugins now that don't even install in linux. For DeDRM I am in the same boat as you, it simply works without jumping through hoops - I always choose to download and transfer via USB from Amazon (only store that gets my business for DRMed books anymore). |
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You'll find now that Calibre will give you notice about every week (or every other week) that there is a new update waiting. I (personally) don't update every time, usually just every two or three times. The Export/Import works really well. I exported my Calibre books from Linux, copied to a thumb drive and then imported them to a Windows machine (just to see if it would work) and I had no issues. What surprised me is that even the DeDRM plugins moved over, already configured and worked "out of box" on the new install. (I'm guessing that wouldn't work going the other way if you were using plugins that don't work in Linux.) |
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09-01-2018, 02:22 PM | #8 |
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Thanks all for your responses
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