• Weylandyuta@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ll read up on it myself, but can virtual box run a windows instance from inside my Linux partition? I’ve never done any virtualization but that would be about the only thing from windows that would be useful. Just so I could use our excel doc to do billhead.

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      1 year ago

      You can run windows in a vm in linux yes, with the caveat specifically for gamers that games with overzealous anti cheat can detect that they are running in a VM.

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        1 year ago

        No need for windows to game anymore, steam/proton, lutrus and wine handle what I need just fine these days. This is more about using Microsoft excel as I have some union business that operates out of an excel file and Google sheets and libreoffice do not play nice with all the macros going on in it. Literally just to run excel.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the whole point.

      I joke it runs faster than on bare metal but because you don’t use it for everything and can in fact have a fresh install for each program it probably does.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks, I appreciate it. I just never needed to do it before but I’m getting to the point that it would be very useful for me. 🙏