there’s a few projects for running windows in a container… winboat and winapps are a couple that come to mind. dunno if they’re ready for ‘prime time’ yet. interesting concept, though.
Nope. Not always an option, for example, My recording studio is running Win10. I cannot get the same audio latency\performance I need in a VM, and some of my software will not even run if it detects that it is in a VM.
There’s also things like HASP\Sentinel license keys that will detect VMs and refuse to run, all kinds of licensing servers do this to combat piracy.
I could go on… but I do IT for hundreds of businesses, I run into these niches fairly often when trying to virtualize legacy systems or retrofitting hardware for industrial equipment.
thats why I keep a windows usb boot drive, in case I ever need some random software. the last time I needed it was a fallout shelter save editor to enable the new paid content without paying
luckily for my line of work and hobbies linux has been great, for work I am required to use a windows laptop but luckily all our appliances we make are linux machines so we just use one of them as a test bench that we ssh into and use that for all our testing of our other appliances since the windows machine is so locked down by IT we cant really use our laptops for production. for home use I mostly just use the browser like 80% of the time then photo editing and little music learning using a little focusrite interface to be able to listen to my piano and videos at the same time and basic recording for playback to see how I did. I never tried to run windows software on linux other than games through steam and proton, I always just looked for alternatives which luckily wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be
Yeah until you need niche software… unfortunately
Run a VM for Windows…
there’s a few projects for running windows in a container… winboat and winapps are a couple that come to mind. dunno if they’re ready for ‘prime time’ yet. interesting concept, though.
Nope. Not always an option, for example, My recording studio is running Win10. I cannot get the same audio latency\performance I need in a VM, and some of my software will not even run if it detects that it is in a VM.
There’s also things like HASP\Sentinel license keys that will detect VMs and refuse to run, all kinds of licensing servers do this to combat piracy.
I could go on… but I do IT for hundreds of businesses, I run into these niches fairly often when trying to virtualize legacy systems or retrofitting hardware for industrial equipment.
Lemmy… where you get down voted for the truth lol
But for this you can get a Mac, and would be better than Linux. I do use macOS for work but my personal computer even for gaming is using Mint.
… not really
thats why I keep a windows usb boot drive, in case I ever need some random software. the last time I needed it was a fallout shelter save editor to enable the new paid content without paying
Yeah, thats not even close to cutting it in the big scheme of things
luckily for my line of work and hobbies linux has been great, for work I am required to use a windows laptop but luckily all our appliances we make are linux machines so we just use one of them as a test bench that we ssh into and use that for all our testing of our other appliances since the windows machine is so locked down by IT we cant really use our laptops for production. for home use I mostly just use the browser like 80% of the time then photo editing and little music learning using a little focusrite interface to be able to listen to my piano and videos at the same time and basic recording for playback to see how I did. I never tried to run windows software on linux other than games through steam and proton, I always just looked for alternatives which luckily wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be