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Two by two, onto the usb you go. (programming.dev)
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A picture of Noahs Ark. It has the caption "How I feel Gathering all my files before reinstalling windows"

A picture of Noahs Ark. It has the caption "How I feel Gathering all my files before reinstalling windows"
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't remember what it is called but someone is working on a seamless VM launcher that runs windows in the back ground and launches the app like a native windows program.

Not that interested myself since everything I need runs in Linux just fine and it sounds like it would be a slow heavy "program" to launch but it's still gonna remove the last excuse.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Winapps or WinBoat, both seem pretty promising but they're very early in the development process. They're not overly heavy, from what I've remember, just like 4GB of RAM and 20GB of drive space. I'm excited to see where those projects are in like, a year or so!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I was playing with WinBoat yesterday. Its pretty cool. Yes, very light and seemed to function very well.

    Navigating around is...unique... As you are accessing folders via 2 OS structures, so not as seamless as in workflows but nothing is really in the way. But counter argument is that running a standard windows VM is not really any more of a hassle.

    I'm more concerned with the windows privacy aspects while it runs, but to get into it I need to activate windows which I'm not going to do for a testing scenario.

    It's far too early to have an opinion on it though, so I'm equally looking forward to what a year or two will bring.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's hella exciting to me. I've almost exclusively used Linux for about a decade now, and I've never been able to get wine to work- I used to dual boot, but nowadays I just don't use anything that won't run on Linux without a VM

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