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cm0002@lemmy.world to Linux@programming.dev · 29 days ago

WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"

www.gamingonlinux.com

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WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"

www.gamingonlinux.com

cm0002@lemmy.world to Linux@programming.dev · 29 days ago
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Sometimes, you really do just need to run a Windows app on Linux and perhaps WinBoat might make this easier with its promise of seamless integration.
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  • aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works
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    it runs a real copy of Windows using Docker and KVM under the hood

    🫤

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      Docker AND KVM

      Wtf

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        Containerise your Virtual Machines!
        Or… Virtual Machinerise your Containers?

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      Yeah, if I wanted a VM, I’d be running a VM…

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    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.

    • Meshmixer
    • RealityCapture/RealityScan

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

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      So I assume solidworks ain’t gonna work on this.

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        If anyone gets updates on Solidworks on Linux, get back to us. One of my managers is so upset about having to use Windows.

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

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    How about just using virtualbox… Or maybe wine and stuff

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      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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        A VM in a container actually

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

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            No I’m talking about VMs. It’s the baloon kernel driver which also works on Windows (though needs separate installation). It doesn’t work quite like containers though. The hypervisor dynamically adds/removes memory to the VM depending on total memory usage of the hypervisor.

            See https://pve02.northcode.ch:8006/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory

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