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WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[+] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If this is just winapps with a different coat of paint then it’s still not gonna work for me. I haven’t managed to get several apps requiring a gpu running through WinApps properly.

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    And posting about them in the forums and discord has gotten me no help.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I guess this looks like WSL on Windows, except the other way around?

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    [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    How about just using virtualbox.. Or maybe wine and stuff

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Virtualbox is VMs. This is containers.

    Containers are better, especially for a desktop: they are smaller, faster in every sense, and don't permanently hog a fixed part of the resources, instead scaling dynamically, just like any other process on the host.

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

    Nowadays you can also assign a dynamic amount of memory. I've only ever used this with Linux VMs on Proxmox though, but I'm pretty sure it works with Windows as well

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're probably thinking of LXCs, which are containers not virtual machines

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