In my persistence to fit Linux in my life, I’m curious if some “must have” Windows software will work better if I just ran a Windows VM within Linux.

None of the software I need to work is needed to work continuously. They are basically programs that I fire up when needed, for a few minutes, then exited.

Wine will install them, but not run them, so I’m hoping a VM is the answer as I’m not interested in dual-booting to run a few Windows programs occasionally.

  • Uncle_Abbie
    29·
    3 months ago

    Have you tried using Bottles? It’s a front-end for Wine that makes configuration easier: LINK

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOP
      131·
      3 months ago

      Bottles didn’t run anything I tried, unfortunately. They seemed to install just fine, but that was about it.

      • PassingThrough@lemmy.worldEnglish
        92·
        3 months ago

        Are you installing needed libraries?

        For example, the installer runs because it doesn’t need any, but then your app needs say VCRedist 2010, and so won’t until run until you add the vcrun2010 extra library with Winetricks or the menu in Bottles.

        • refalo@programming.dev
          6·
          3 months ago

          There are indeed many applications and games that still don’t run under wine for all different kinds of reasons. And the windows-on-linux virtualized GPU solutions for VMs are still not mature enough to work for many apps, so unfortunately for those people, their only choice is a physical GPU passthrough VM.