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WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"
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then just run windows; at that point if you're going to buy a license for windows, why go through hoops?
Because I use a paid graphics suite for profit (Affinity, great and pretty decent payment model), and I'm OK-ish with paying (a fair price) for stuff that allows me to make money, but I'd rather live in Linux for most everything else.
I currently use Affinity mostly in a VM, and dual boot for some very specific things, but this seems to be a way to make the experience better.
Also, a lot of people have paid for a license when buying their computer. I'm OK with people sidestepping the strict licensing terms if they have paid for it.
It's not "you have pirated it", but "you aren't using it exactly as we want you to"
Because windows is really bad for work, I would want my kde multidesktop multiscreen setup while I earn money spending time in visual studio.
Who said you gonna BUY a license?
If it’s using dockur/windows it has a pre registered ime.
So now suddenly us lemmy linux tech nerds forgot about mass...🙄.
Unless that isn't possible to run, then correct me pls
umm, running windows in a container is still running windows so . . . . you would still just be running windows
and then it gets shutdown by the copyright police and you're out of luck
Microsoft offically supports and encourages using windows in a VM and container tho? It's massivly important for developers and server admins to be able to do. Even regardless of that, they'd still prefer you to run a windows vm and keep their OS as a core dependency of your computing life
How is running windows in a virtual machine going to get stopped? Please elaborate.
the copyright police have no power on the open sea of the internet. They'd have to shut down the internet itself before copies of windows could go away.