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    14 hours ago

    Yeah, I still need Windows on my laptop for some schoolwork(GX works 2 for PLCs), that I can’t get to work on linux.

    Really happy with Fedora KDE though, some things require a bit of fiddling, but I do enjoy the troubleshooting process.

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      7 hours ago

      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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        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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          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.