Budget-priced Windows license

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 23 May 2022 20:06:30 +0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 23/5/22 7:55 pm, Liam Proven wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Personally for testing and occasional ad-hoc use, I use Win10
> > unregistered.
> > 
> > My own home machines use their firmware-embedded licences, be those Win7 or 10.
> > 
> > [3] If I were advocating piracy, which I am not, I would point out
> > easier, but cumbersome, ways to obtain illegitimate Win10 licences
> > free of charge.
> > 
> > 
> 
> One thing that I am wondering, in this context, given that Ralf posted 
> that (I believe that this is correct) he is using MS Windows in a 
> virtual machine, running on top of Linux, is it better to run MS Windows 
> in a virtual machine, on top of Linux, or, to run wine, in order to run 
> applications that only run on MS Windows, on Linux?

It depends.  *Some* MS-Windows apps run just fine under WINE, but lots don't 
(mostly ones that "cheat" in various ways or are making use of exotic features 
or something else).

Running MS Windows in a VM, partitularly a sandboxed VM is going to be 
implicitly more secure than  MS Windows on the "bare metal".  With modern 
processors, the performance penalty of a VM is going to be minimual.  One 
*probably* is not going to want to run something with heavy video demands that 
way (VR Games?), but somehow I doubt that is what is going on.

> 

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