Has anyone done this? Its a very proprietary program lol, so I can imagine that doesnt work.
But its powerful and my Uni supports it. I am fine with just following classes on Uni PCs and then learning QGis myself, but yeah…
Are there any tricks for running “modern”, maybe DRM infested Software?
Also, how I did it was always just running executables in existing Bottles, as I dont get having a new small OS for each app. But that doesnt seem to work that well in Bottles.
I’ve gone that road and I’ll tell you that making a windows virtual machine is much less of a headache. I’d recommend using qemu/kvm over something like virtualbox because otherwise it won’t be very usable
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It takes 15 mins to make a stable and usable windows VM, also who buys windows licenses in a Linux community
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they’re talking about a VM, not wine. if you have a powerful enough computer to spare some resources, and don’t have a graphically-intensive application, a VM is probably a good choice if you like/need linux for most of your workflow!
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i’m not saying that you should use a VM if everything on your PC requires windows… only if one specific app you sometimes need doesn’t work on linux!
as someone studying foreign languages for example, i know that if i want to do translation, i’ll have to use windows for some specific proprietary cat software. but i don’t spend my whole time in a cat software! i would also need to work with email, and some projects would require me to use a browser-based tao software, and in those cases, i’d much prefer being on linux to use things like a better japanese input, tiling window management if on a laptop, and generally, not having to deal with advertisments!
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Thank you
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Yeah thats an entirely different thing. My GPU is weird and virt-manager doesnt work, while OpenGL enabled VMs are nice and smooth but had other problems with the correct viewer and all…
Asked ChatGPT for every damn parameter or viewer, user virt-viewer, remote-viewer, VNC, some GTK viewer.
What’s your GPU and distro?
Without knowing those, start here
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
I have an AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U, Radeon Vega Mobile Graphics.
No passthrough here I guess.
Distro is Fedora Kinoite, with virgl and all that layered
I don’t do passthrough on my windows VM, since I’m not doing 3D work it still works with qxl
Why is qemu more usable?
Because of GPU passthrough
Unless things have changed, graphics card passthrough is tough to use because you need two graphics cards. The one sent to the VM can’t be used on the host if you plan on using the guest. For laptops this can be impossible to reconcile, and even for desktops this can be… weird.
Actually, things have changed - you can passthru with just a single GPU now, and for many users, it’s actually more stable/reliable than a dual-GPU setup (as you do mention, it can be “weird”). There is a catch however, and that is of course you can’t use/switch to your host OS while the guest is running, but that shouldn’t be an issue anyways if you’re going to be working out of the guest OS. There are scripts available that make this switchover automatic and seamless.
https://github.com/QaidVoid/Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough
Here’s a handy video that illustrated what this looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWf5D092VY
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