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.

  • yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    1 year ago

    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!

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      What’s the point in running all your major apps in a VM? You’ll still have all the “problems” of Windows with the additional overhead of having two operating systems running…

      Also virtualization is a pain not only for “graphically-intensive applications”, anything that uses GPU acceleration won’t perform that well, even the Windows UI itself. GPU passthrough is also a pain because it requires another GPU and even then you’ll have to get the image back to your system in some way which will have a performance impact on framerate.

      • yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        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!