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[–] 2 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

That's why I specified personal devices. My work laptop runs Windows 11. But it belongs to the company, so I don't really care.

For other shit of mine that requires Windows (like vehicle diagnostics software), I just run a VM.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Hmm, I suppose maybe I could get GX Works to work on my main pc. It's a pirated copy that our teacher handed out to us, but iirc the installation was fairly simple.

    I haven't ever used a VM though, will I have to set it up every time, or can I save the VM and start it up whenever I want to?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    I haven’t ever used a VM though, will I have to set it up every time, or can I save the VM and start it up whenever I want to?

    It's just like a physical machine, except launched in a window from your desktop (or wherever you put the VM launcher). And yes, if you set it up correctly, it saves its state when it shuts down.

    I use virt-manager, which is just a GUI on top of KVM/qcow. Works really well. It's available for pretty much every Linux distro.

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