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.

  • AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, sometimes there just isn’t another option. I have a 60GiB Win11 VM for things I use every few months for a couple of minutes at a time

    I’d recommend https://www.qemu.org/ for virtualisation

    https://virt-manager.org/ for a gui to manage VMs, you can easily add or remove cores, memory, internet, directories etc really easily.

    https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp lets you add a directory from your host to the VM to easily share files

    https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-guest-tools-installer makes the cursor seamlessly move between the VM and host instead of pressing ctrl alt g to escape.

    Win11 23H2 still allows for offline set up. Just press shift f10 when you’re at the internet set up and type

    oobe/bypassnro
    

    The VM will reboot and give you the option to select I don’t have internet so you can just use a local account

    https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat/ for getting rid of the unwanted bloatware

    Theres also an easy way to activate windows for free, I don’t think I can link it here but its on github and MAS-sive amount of people have starred it.