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| softwares:giocoso:gioinstall [2025/12/15 09:51] – [1.0 Operating System Support] hjr | softwares:giocoso:gioinstall [2025/12/15 09:52] (current) – [1.0 Operating System Support] hjr |
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| * Tier 4: Windows, Apple macOS | * Tier 4: Windows, Apple macOS |
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| Every listed distro //did// run Giocoso perfectly at some time in the past and, if the distro developers haven't messed around with core libraries too much, they //should// still work. However, only those distros in Tier 1 will receive extensive real-world testing from Version 3.32 and up. Other distros will receive either light-touch testing to make sure most things seem to work fine (Tier 2), or will only be tested on-demand by users reporting specific problems (Tier 3). | Every listed distro //did// run Giocoso perfectly at some time in the past and, if the distro developers haven't messed around with core libraries too much, they //should// still work. However, only those distros in Tier 1 will receive extensive real-world testing from Version 3.32 and up. Other distros will receive either light-touch testing to make sure most things seem to work fine (Tier 2), or will only be tested on-demand by users reporting specific problems (Tier 3). I've provided some distro-specific notes and gotchas elsewhere. |
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| Windows is a bit of a special case, because it probably runs Giocoso just fine... but I have no means of knowing that for sure. Windows 10 reached end of Microsoft's official support back in October 2025, so all the hardware I have running Giocoso on Windows 10 is now no longer representative of anything supported by the operating system's own manufacturer. Windows 11 is, of course, fully supported by Microsoft -but I literally have no hardware that is officially supported for running it. I can //hack// Windows 11 onto a bunch of spare hardware, but it will be an unsupported and unrepresentative platform. The principle, however, is that if you get Windows running the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) then you can install one of the supported distros on that (for example, Ubuntu or Fedora) and Giocoso will run perfectly well in that environment. So, it's not that Giocoso won't run on Windows: it's just that I now expend zero development effort proving it does so. Any issues arising as you try to run it are therefore really yours to resolve. I will certainly offer advice and help if asked, but it will be merely on a 'best efforts' basis. In the meantime, I have written [[win11|installation instructions for Windows 11 here]]. | Windows is a bit of a special case, because it probably runs Giocoso just fine... but I have no means of knowing that for sure. Windows 10 reached end of Microsoft's official support back in October 2025, so all the hardware I have running Giocoso on Windows 10 is now no longer representative of anything supported by the operating system's own manufacturer. Windows 11 is, of course, fully supported by Microsoft -but I literally have no hardware that is officially supported for running it. I can //hack// Windows 11 onto a bunch of spare hardware, but it will be an unsupported and unrepresentative platform. The principle, however, is that if you get Windows running the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) then you can install one of the supported distros on that (for example, Ubuntu or Fedora) and Giocoso will run perfectly well in that environment. So, it's not that Giocoso won't run on Windows: it's just that I now expend zero development effort proving it does so. Any issues arising as you try to run it are therefore really yours to resolve. I will certainly offer advice and help if asked, but it will be merely on a 'best efforts' basis. In the meantime, I have written [[win11|installation instructions for Windows 11 here]]. |