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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And so cometh the foretold LSW (Linux Subsystem for Windows)

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And with it, the infinitely recursive wsllswwsllswwsllsw...

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s subsystems all the way down

[–] uairhahs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Always has been

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So... What make it's different from PlayOnLinux or Bottles or Winetricks ?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

They can't run Adobe. This runs a full VM constantly in the background that you can pop up when you want to use the Windows desktop to install things etc. It's a completely different set up. It can also run ArcGIS Pro, which the other methods can't.

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So this can run latest MS OFFICE and Adobe Suite you say ??

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It can even run pirated versions, don't ask me how I know! 🏴‍☠️

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

That's even better !!!

[–] pirat@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

yar har har

[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And if it can run FL Studio, adios to dual boot. 😄

FL Studio and most VSTs already work in WINE.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would you want that though....

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Well it's not my own choice, my office has standards.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

me running adobe ps cc 2023 in wine for the last 2 years: * stares in doubt

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

ESRI sucks horribly, getting away from that trash is a good idea.

There is no good use case for that crap.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unlike the Wine based stuff (Bottles, Winetricks), this runs actual Windows as a VM. So compatibility will be far better though performance will be worse.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

And it comes with all the downsides that Windows does.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't ever mean to be a downer but I feel this will hurt users in the long run. Just simy extending an umbilicle to Microsoft's teat because they can't be assed to let go and stop suckling. M$O and Adobe CC are some of the worst offenders for SaaS bullshittery.

[–] argarath@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

The thing is, sometimes you need Microsoft not of your own volition but because of bureaucracy. When I was signing a contract recently, the government required me to fill in a office word document and it would not work at all on libre, I had to scramble around the house, went through 3 different computers trying to get any of them to have office working after I just recently uninstalled it from all of them to use libre only, but in the end I had to use a university computer to fill in the doc.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As much as I want to move from them, Excel and Photoshop are too advance compared to any alternative, including both FOSS and commercial one.

Even Excel Online is not as advance as Excel desktop.

Casual users can get away from them, not advance user that needs unique feature only available in the software.

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[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Well will it run Winamp because I inadvertently read the title as Winamp and now I need it again

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Audacious is your friend. It accepts old Winamp skins!

I've been rocking the Windows XP skin on Linux Mint

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It really whips the llama's ass!

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

AFAIK I am pretty sure Winamp works fine on Wine.

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[–] rotorwashed@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anyone try this yet? Office and adobe on Linux easily working on Linux would be big.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It running in podman just windows VM and connection to real host done with rdp window capture from windows.I tried it not that bad can be used for office work i used it with tiny11

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Yea it's great!

[–] july@leminal.space 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What about graphics acceleration? Does it need gpu pass through?

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Running Windows in a Docker, Podman or libvirt virtual machine

Seems to me like GPU acceleration should be supported. Libvirt probably requires dedicated passthrough or sophisticated methods like SR-IOV.

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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's the difference of this and WINE?

[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

tldr: VM->RDP seamless render

WinApps works by: Running Windows in a Docker, Podman or libvirt virtual machine. Querying Windows for all installed applications. Creating shortcuts to selected Windows applications on the host GNU/Linux OS. Using FreeRDP as a backend to seamlessly render Windows applications alongside GNU/Linux applications.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago

Wine Is Not an Emulator.

This is an Emulator.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Wait, Docker and Podman can create Windows VMs?

I had winapps setup using QEMU quite a while ago but this seems like a much tidier setup.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Docker and Podman can't run Windows VMs by themselves. These containers use QEMU, so it's essentially a pre-made setup for what you already had.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I am running it on Docker. :)

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Will this work with music producing software like Ableton or will it introduce too much latency?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

It should be ok, I think. I am running ArcGIS which is pretty resource heavy and it works just fine.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sure you can but why would you want to

[–] Robin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm gonna try this out. I like to use a DnD character generation sheet that only supports Adobe PDF with its js shenanigans. There really isn't any sheet generator that comes close to it, I checked.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A DND character sheet is enough to use adobe? I wonder how we ever got by before it.

In any case let's see it. Curious if I could change it to something else, or is it custom by you?

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[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Additional Features

  • The GNU/Linux /home directory is accessible within Windows via the \\tsclient\home mount

Well I for one won't be touching this with a ten foot pole.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yah, I dinked with this for far too long on several docker-based windows installs I have around the network including localhost on a non-standard port. Fails to set up and gives no messages to follow up when it does. I can connect to them fine with a normal xfreerdp command.

2/7

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If that works with silly mobile games as well, maybe I can get my mom on Linux

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[–] De4th69@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Does anyone know if it can run Visual Studio? Would be awesome so i could switch to Linux for my Job

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[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Paint.net' child window always got mess up and float across the screen towards the left side

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