Budget-priced Windows license

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 23 May 2022 14:35:08 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 14:08, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> 
> A fair question.
> 
> TBH, I almost never need Windows apps, and when I do, what I need
> mostly does run on WINE. I don't keep a Win VM around any more and
> haven't for, oh my, probably a decade or so.
> 
> But most of my machines do dual-boot Win10 and Linux, because when I
> do need something from Windows, it probably needs hardware access
> and/or drivers and a VM won't help me.
> 
> It depends what you need. They aren't always interchangeable things.
> 
> I know Ralf does music stuff.  That needs very precise timings and
> maybe exotic hardware. OTOH, maybe these days a VM is fast enough to
> manage that.

If he is just doing a format conversion from some propriatory (MS-Windows) 
file format to something more generic, that won't need precise timings or 
exotic hardware.  

> 

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