Cassowary mentions (23)

• How are you running Windows only applications on your Linux ThinkPad?

  I'm using virtualbox on my x220, of I really need windows. However, if you setup a VM from scratch anyway, I would rather go with KVM/QEMU and maybe even try https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary, to launch the windows programms directly under Linux, with the VM running "in the background". Source: about 1 year ago

• Thinking about switching my SP8 to linux, but I have a few questions.

  How are integrated VM solutions like cassowary on the surface pro? I need to run OneNote (this is a must as I am set all work on OneNote) to a decent level, with pen support. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is MS office a big driver of people moving to Linux?

  Well, if I actually need office 365 for collaborating with someone, I use https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary to actually run the Office Suite in a Windows VM and have it seeminglessly integrated into Linux. Source: about 1 year ago

• MicroOS Distrobox questions

  Microsoft Office run in a Windows VM and integrated into Linux via Cassowary (https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary). This requires installing libvirt and virt-manager in a rootful Distrobox (apparently Distrobox supports this only for Alma Linux and Tumbleweed, so the default Tumbleweed guest should be okay as long as you can run it with root) and installing the Python application Cassowary ("pip install... Source: about 1 year ago

• New to Manjaro… any advice?

  Imo QEMU/KVM has better performance than VirtualBox. There are also some tools like Cassowary to make Windows apps run as if they're native apps (e.g. Without opening VM first). It's harder to setup than VirtualBox, though. Source: over 1 year ago

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