• Weylandyuta@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Steam deck and my desktop. The only thing that would be useful is if I could find a program that would work with excel macros for union business. I basically have always used computers for gaming and browsing.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve replaced everything I actually use which is something I haven’t been able to do before. for anything else there’s VirtualBox.

      2020 2021 2022 2023 the year of the Linux desktoop

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        1 year ago

        I’ll read up on it myself, but can virtual box run a windows instance from inside my Linux partition? I’ve never done any virtualization but that would be about the only thing from windows that would be useful. Just so I could use our excel doc to do billhead.

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          1 year ago

          You can run windows in a vm in linux yes, with the caveat specifically for gamers that games with overzealous anti cheat can detect that they are running in a VM.

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          That’s the whole point.

          I joke it runs faster than on bare metal but because you don’t use it for everything and can in fact have a fresh install for each program it probably does.

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        1 year ago

        As far as I understand, the wbe versions are very stripped down compared to their desktop counterparts. That’s a great question though and one I should explore. When I actually spring for excel/365 I can check out the web version while on Linux and if it doesn’t work, look into setting up a virtualized Windows setup.