In my persistence to fit Linux in my life, I’m curious if some “must have” Windows software will work better if I just ran a Windows VM within Linux.

None of the software I need to work is needed to work continuously. They are basically programs that I fire up when needed, for a few minutes, then exited.

Wine will install them, but not run them, so I’m hoping a VM is the answer as I’m not interested in dual-booting to run a few Windows programs occasionally.

  • LalSalaamComradeEnglish
    2•11 days ago

    the worst issue using a VM is with programs that need the GPU

    Only for a type-2 (hosted) hypervisor. This isn’t a issue in type-1 (bare-metal) hypervisor.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•11 days ago

      Sounds like they’re using it on their desktop, so passthru is probably going to be a mess regardless of hypervisor type, since they probably can’t do exclusive access to it.

      • LiveLMEnglish
        1•10 days ago

        I fucking hate GPU companies for always removing SR-IOV from their consumer cards