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[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (11 children)

linux is great, but i still need to dual boot windows for some incompatible (art) software :/

and don't tell me to just use wine it doesn't work i've tried it doggirl-tears

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How about Winboat? Its just a Windows VM with less hassle. I use it for all the office apps.

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

i'll look into it, ty! though im not sure how it'll run with my drawing tablet and such

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Never used wineboat but something to be aware of is VMs usually can interact with peripherals natively (as if they were the host computer) but this is almost always disabled by default as people usually use VMs to isolate stuff.

So you may need to adjust options

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

if that doesn't work maybe try libvirt? it's got usb passthrough so you should be able to mostly use peripherals any way you want. also it's got a gui like virtualbox so the hardest part is turning on hardware-accelerated virtualization/hyper-v in your bios

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

i'll look into it! unfortunately my tablet is not plug and play and requires drivers so hopefully that's not a problem

it's just a virtual machine so it probably won't be a problem. i've had issues with some of the more esoteric stuff but tbh it was probably user error

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