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  • Gasandthefuhrerious@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Your best bet is virtualization. I use that for my CAD software, games that dont run under linux and Microsoft office

    This allows me to only use Windows that 10% of the time I need my software and be using linux for all other stuff.

    Only issue is that it requires some effort to get it going and some additional hardware if you want to run both at the same time.

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      1 year ago

      Nice, i will take a look at this. With virtualization are both OS able to share files/ access the same files?

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        1 year ago

        Kind of… You usually can mount a directory or similar from the Host machines (Linux in this case) on the Guest (windows in this case). It uses a virtual fs so it doesn’t matter the filesystem used on the host or similar. That said due this is slower than direct use of files.

        Alternative even if that wasn’t a thing you could always do a network share in SMB or similar and as long as they have access to network it would work too.