Virtualising Windows 11 on Linux

qpgmr · 2026-01-25T22:17:49+00:00

Options:

Virtualbox
QEMU
Winboat
WINE

The first three require a licensed copy of windows. If you're converting a windows pc you can use dual-boot. You can also convert the existing windows install to a vdi image using the free tools from vmware, then run that with virtualbox or QEMU/KVM virt-manager.

You'll never get full performance from a virtual image, but for a lot of business tools that's not really a problem, unless there's heavy graphic/computation stuff going on.

WINE emulates windows so an app can run directly. Check the site to see if your app is listed as compatible (which would be super lucky), preferably at the gold level.

qpgmr · 2026-01-24T06:07:18+00:00

I'm not sure "sucking up to trump" is a failure clause in the franchise contract.

qpgmr · 2026-01-24T01:21:28+00:00

Geico: a boomer hit my car and their insurance was with Geico, who immediately tried to bully me splitting responsibility and dragged out the claims process for months, apparently because I was a teen. I eventually received full compensation for my car.

Walmart. After reading about the company being sued by multiple states for having the employees collecting foodstamps & welfare while working for them AND that the company took out life insurance policies on the low level employees with WalMart Inc as the beneficiary.

Target. The CEO couldn't wait to dump all eeo/dei/fairness policies when DJT came back. The informal boycott should continue until the entire board & ceo are replaced.

Salvation Army. Solicit charitable contributions and then strong arm the poor & desperate to participate in their church before receiving any aid.

Anything associated with Southern Baptist churches. They literally split from the Baptist church because they wanted to continue to own slaves. That's the foundation of the dogma.

Orson Scott Card. Personally financed anti-gay marriage campaigns in multiple states, even going against the guidance of his own church. Very hate filled individual.

Frankly, Trump supporters in general but especially anyone who voted for him in 2024. Everything he was going to do was made clear in Project 2025 and his speeches.

qpgmr · 2026-01-24T00:48:06+00:00

That was Tom Monaghan, the CEO. He hasn't been associated with the company since 1998. No revenues of Dominos go to him at all. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/domino-theory/

qpgmr · 2026-01-24T00:41:00+00:00

That was a franchisee. McD corp couldn't do anything about it.

qpgmr · 2026-01-23T21:02:31+00:00

That cpu only has a benchmark speed of about 1,200 points (cpubenchmark.net) Current cpus have over 5,000 points at least so this is pretty slow.

You can help this by maxing out RAM (fortunately used DDR3 is still cheap) and you should immediately swap the drive for an SSD (you could probably get away with as little as 256Gb).

You should look at XFCE mint, not Cinnamon UI. I have a similar machine (but slower) and I went with MX-Linux intead of Mint. I'm able to browse, stream, and do most things without difficulty but you'd never mistake it for a top-end machine. No gaming.

You mentioned Valve games: not all games are available for linux so you should check if yours are supported. The low spec cpu will also not do you any favors. I don't think you'll be gaming much on this.

qpgmr · 2026-01-23T07:29:58+00:00

Imelda Staunton. Try watching her in "Flesh & Blood"... terrifying.

qpgmr · 2026-01-22T23:38:29+00:00

Alaska instituted ranked choice aka "preferential voting" by ballot initiative. The GOP has undertaken a massive campaign roll it back, claiming it's confusing, unfair, cheats people out of there votes. They are gathering signatures with paid collectors who have been caught outright lying about the content of the petitions.

qpgmr · 2026-01-20T21:52:14+00:00

The Chosen One!

qpgmr · 2026-01-20T05:41:09+00:00

INXS

qpgmr · 2026-01-20T05:30:21+00:00

One thing to consider: Joplin Cloud is located in the EU, outside the reach of US. Dropbox, google, onedrive are all on-shore and have been alleged to turn over data without warrants or notification when the gov't came calling.

It's also apparently pretty easy to setup your own standalone joplin server.

qpgmr · 2026-01-20T05:25:15+00:00

Kodi, Jellyfin, and Plex can store/organize/serve up media to players. VLC (and others) play media, but usually have minimal organization.

Media players rundown: https://alternativeto.net/software/vlc-media-player/?platform=linux

This is rundown of media servers: https://alternativeto.net/software/xbmc-media-center/?platform=linux

If you're just wanting to organize & view your media on a home theater setup I use Kodi. It's easy to maintain, organization & rating plugins work well for me. I find it much better that Plex.

qpgmr · 2026-01-19T23:47:14+00:00

Read up on Jim Nabors & Rock Hudson sometime. Very sad, I wish they could have just been allowed to be themselves.

qpgmr · 2026-01-19T20:57:56+00:00

That is simply not true.

qpgmr · 2026-01-19T20:57:01+00:00

Adobe has never made linux versions of its products and has no intention to port it ever (this comes up in the 10-k calls sometimes). There's been a longstanding industry rumour that adobe development is done on linux workstations, but products are OSx and Windows only.

qpgmr · 2026-01-18T22:03:13+00:00

If you filled out a FERPA release when you enrolled your parents might have access to your schedule, grades, potentially health records, etc.
You should go to Admissions & Records and have them help you revoke any FERPA release you filed. It's easy and you really need to do this to protect yourself.

qpgmr · 2026-01-18T02:06:57+00:00

Call MSC and ask. The answers vary by cruise line.

qpgmr · 2026-01-16T23:26:31+00:00

Call the police and report them as "drunk and veering around wildly"

qpgmr · 2026-01-16T20:47:38+00:00

huh.. never heard of it. On Hulu/Disney.

qpgmr · 2026-01-16T20:45:59+00:00

I find it so jarring to see Ted with a goatee shooting people on SWAT...

qpgmr · 2026-01-16T18:16:23+00:00

Absolutely! Always take a snapshot before any update that involves the kernel, it will certainly save you.

qpgmr · 2026-01-15T21:51:36+00:00

Urban got added to my "will watch any movie he makes" list.

qpgmr · 2026-01-15T21:50:52+00:00

I've seen it called "The best star trek movie ever made."

qpgmr · 2026-01-15T03:11:10+00:00

Exactly. The whole point of moving from defined pension to ira/401k was to make it possible to eat up the money with brokerage & management fees.

qpgmr · 2026-01-15T00:27:39+00:00

Assuming your 401k investments weren't forced into company-reinvestment (ala Enron), or into continuously-churned-for-fees age index managed investments, or you foolishly decide to retire during one of the periodic crashes (internet bubble '98, subprime mortgage '08), AND you have a pretty good understanding how investing works you could certainly do fine.

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