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I have some software that doesnt work with wine or anything else the like Ive tried, and doesnt seem to have a linux equivalent that I can find. Ive only been using linux a few months now, so maybe theres some other options that Im missing, but how else does one deal with that apart from booting back into the old windows install whenever I need that specific software?
Have you tried a virtual machine?
The other benefit is there's no fun and games on the windows boot so i can't get distracted from work. If it was just a quick shortcut away I'd get nothing done.
Theyve looked a bit daunting to set up, so not just yet. But isnt that effectively the same thing, still running windows for those programs just without having to actually sign out of the linux partition to do it?
Yeah, but it's nice to just be able to use your windows software without needing to bootup windows, and then after you've finished reboot into linux.
Isn't vm performance terrible?
Well you gotta give your VM a little more juice than just one CPU core and 4 MB of RAM :)