Anyone try this yet? Office and adobe on Linux easily working on Linux would be big.
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.
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.
What about graphics acceleration? Does it need gpu pass through?
And so cometh the foretold LSW (Linux Subsystem for Windows)
And with it, the infinitely recursive wsllswwsllswwsllsw…
It’s subsystems all the way down
Always has been
What’s the difference of this and WINE?
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
This is an Emulator.
So… What make it’s different from PlayOnLinux or Bottles or Winetricks ?
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.
So this can run latest MS OFFICE and Adobe Suite you say ??
It can even run pirated versions, don’t ask me how I know! 🏴☠️
That’s even better !!!