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Just Purchased Crossover Professional and now looking at three download debs...

So I just signed up for CX Professional and I am now stared in the face by three different downloads (Professional, Standard, and Games) What exactly is the difference between Professional and Standard? When I downloaded professional I was expecting it to contain both the Games and Standard portions but it does not so I am slight confused...

~Jeff

With the Professional version, you may use whatever title suits your
paritcular purpose...I'm pretty sure both the professional and standard
versions are the same, just the licensing agreement differs...ie; with
professional, you can download/use crossover-games as well. You use
your same login/password credentials for whichever product you use
with the professional version.

Hope this helps..

The difference between Pro and Standard is more than just licensing. See the comparison here: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxlinux/

As Don said, a license to Pro entitles you to download and register Standard and Games, too. Standard is a strict subset of Pro. To avoid complications, it's probably simplest to only install one or the other on any given computer.

Games is a separate program. It may be safely installed alongside either Pro or Standard without risk of interference. Pro and Games are neither supersets nor subsets of each other. They are variations of the same product, tweaked to better support different categories of Windows programs. We test Pro against productivity applications and test Games against, well, games. For that reason, we officially support productivity apps in Pro and not Games, and support games in Games and not Pro. (Although we don't impose any artificial restriction on using them with the "wrong" kind of program. It actually occasionally happens that a certain Windows program works better with the "wrong" variant of CrossOver than it does with the right one.)

I have a similar confusion. This page http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/CXOffice_LinuxDemoToFull says I can just install Pro on top of Standard, but the Ubuntu installer says they conflict and doesn't allow it. I don't want to lose the bottles, installed programs, etc. from the demo of standard to move to Pro. Is there a way to install Pro without losing things?

William Miskovetz wrote:

I have a similar confusion. This page
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/CXOffice_LinuxDemoToFull
says I can just install Pro on top of Standard, but the Ubuntu
installer says they conflict and doesn't allow it. I don't want to
lose the bottles, installed programs, etc. from the demo of standard
to move to Pro. Is there a way to install Pro without losing
things?

The best idea I can come up with, is that you archive your existing bottle(s). uninstall
the standard version/install the Pro version, then 'Restore' (unarchive) your saved bottle(s)
into the new installation. Should work...plus your existing (working) bottles will be preserved.

It is rather confusing. Personally I wish there was a single .deb I could download and install for both CXGames/Standard since I have professional. I hate having my app menu clutter with so many icons, and it would be nice if all my bottles where stored in the same place/had a single configuration editor instead of having one for games and one for office products.

~Jeff

Jeff91 wrote:

It is rather confusing. Personally I wish there was a single .deb I
could download and install for both CXGames/Standard since I have
professional. I hate having my app menu clutter with so many icons,
and it would be nice if all my bottles where stored in the same
place/had a single configuration editor instead of having one for
games and one for office products.

~Jeff

True, but if we combined the two it would be more difficult to update the games side or the office side individually. Plus, some of the advancements for Games actually hinder Office apps and vice versa. In the future we would like them to be the same beast, but for now our purpose is best suited by keeping them separate.

Could I at least suggest naming the configuration/installer something different for each then? I use the Ubuntu system panel and all the icons of each get cluttered easily and it is hard to keep track of which go with which.

~Jeff

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