Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.
  • kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    In order of priority:

    1. Check for a Linux-compatible alternative
    2. Try installing/running it via Bottles (a veeeery easy to use Wine frontend, hiding lots of wine complexity). Wine allows running most windows programs directly on Linux, with almost zero performance overhead.
    3. Try installing/running it via winboat (basically WSL in reverse - a well-integrated Windows VM or container running on Linux so you can run pesky Windows-only programs with it) (haven’t used it myself yet)
    4. Use a regular full Windows VM on Linux (likely less well integrated and more resource intensive than #3, but maybe even more compatible). Set up a shared folder between host and VM for easy file transfers.
    5. Dual-boot Windows from another disk. Set up a shared folder/partition for file transfers.