I am not looking for software alternatives. Is the best method still to dual boot?

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[–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Docker containers share host os kernel - can't be used to run a different os.

Your options:

  • Run windows in a VM. You assign some of your PC resources (ram, CPU cores, storage) to vm. That windows VM is going to be within 1-2% of a PC with the specs matching resources assigned to VM. You won't get GPU acceleration unless you pass the entire GPU to VM, but it doesn't matter for Lightroom. Will run perfectly.
  • Run Lightroom with Wine. It runs as just another Linux program via a translation layer. It will get access to all resources your PC has and it won't waste resources running entire 2nd os in a VM, but there is a performance impact of the translation layer. Performance impact varies depending on specific piece of software and sometimes it even runs faster.

Edit: it turns out it does like GPU acceleration, so performance impact without GPU passthrough will be noticeable at least when opening images. Running it on wine is possible, but a pain - it requires manual workarounds and it doesn't run perfectly even with them.

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