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not OP but yeah, hopefully it works in wine or has a webapp, failing that I look for alternative software that meets my needs. If all else fails I suppose I could use a windows VM until a better solution appears. It's really going to depend on your specific case and how vendor locked you are.
How well does a windows vm run in linux? Does it have hardware acceleration?
Asking because i need something to run photoshop and lightroom, which both need hardware acceleration :/
It depends on the VM, but some of them have working graphics hardware acceleration. Virtualbox should be relatively easy to set up with modern Windows guests, but isn't free for commercial use. qemu/kvm is free for all uses, but may require some tinkering to get everything to work. qemu also supports video passthrough—using the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machine—which some gamer types prefer.
Thanks, that doesnt fill me with a lot of hope, but thats why i have dual boot set up with linux (mint) as main os. Ill try wine regarfless before going to windows though
nyan answered your question, I just want to add that older photoshop allegedly runs well in wine and for me personally i've had a lot of success with photopea although I'm a terrible example because I don't do much with it.
I don’t have experience with it, but I’m sure it’s possible to pass the GPU control to the VM, I don’t know how well this sort of thing works.
I think in general, VMWare is the best at working for Windows images.
It's doable with KVM+Qemu. You really need a second video card to make it sane.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GPU_passthrough_with_libvirt_qemu_kvm
It can be run in wine, but you can't install it from the cc app and there's no hardware acceleration, so it's kind of a pig.
Honestly, if you're stuck with windows anyway, you're probably better off with linux in the VM or just using WSL.
True, i was using w10 + wsl until this week. With my new pc i want to switch to linux full time as i did with my laptop. Photoshop and lightroom are the only apps i have issues with atm ( office will follow... ) and dont want to go back to windows full time for them alone. Hence the dual boot in case i need them :p
I find Google docs to be sufficient for most office, But I don't go too far into the weeds and Excel, It would probably be pretty easy have use cases where Google wouldn't cut it for you.
The free open source office alternatives are serviceable, you could get your work done on them but they're disappointing in some tasks.
The new Outlook app is indistinguishable from their electron app. They both suck but they're equal.
But I provision hardware for my job so I have windows boxes sitting around if I need them.
thanks