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[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Could you run fossilized and sandboxed in a VM? I run Tiny10 for a couple Windows applications that can't run on Wine, completely offline so that there's no need for updates. The system continues to work exactly how I want it to with no Microsoft Surprises.

One of the applications is for tax filing, so I finish the taxes, clone the VM, put the copy online and file. After it gets confirmation, I copy the database back to the fossilized version and wipe the copy. Been doing it for years now.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is probably the best approach. You could pass thru relative USB ports and even a GPU to do things on the Windows VM that you can't do in Wine.

But how does that work? Isn't windows rigged to discover if you're running it in a VM to go "sowwy :( but this is an enterprise feature. Money please~!"

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Might be something patched in Tiny10 but it even activated fine for me with the usual hack and hasn't caused any problems. I had to take it online momentarily on install to activate, but that was all.