• Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 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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      6 hours ago

      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 hours ago

        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.