Wine (Was Budget-priced Windows license)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 29 May 2022 11:54:54 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
>Warning:
>*** This may go off-topic, but since you asked: ***

Hi,

my original thread was already off-topic. OTOH it's the kind of
off-topic that makes sense, since Ubuntu, other Linux distros or BSD
don't provide a solution for all domains. If Ubuntu, other Linux distros
or BSD provide the wanted solution, it still can happen that users need
to export data from other operating systems. IOW it's not that
off-topic. Probably the "subject" is somewhat less than perfect.

Regards,
Ralf

PS:

A note related to my new Windows 11 Pro guest.

Con

It took time to get rid of all the manipulating and annoying news and
advertisings. It's easy to get more irrelevant crappy feeds and links,
but it's rocket science to get rid of this crap and even to get rid of
all histories containing this crap.

Pro

The Windows 11 surface has got a modern design and at least the brand
new minimal Windows 11 install performs very fast as a VirtualBox guest.
Usually it's as fast as the Linux host, just every now and then is
hangs for maybe 30 seconds. FWIW it was installed on an old SSD and
moved to a new SSD. I don't know if the new SSD is fishy, but I don't
think so. 

My other Windows guests are very slow, but they are not that
often unresponsive for such a long time, if at all.

When installing Windows 11 Pro I could uncheck almost everything to get
a minimal install. Minimal in wanted functionality, the vdi size is
already 24 GiB with all the software I need, but without any data
stored. The Windows itself is likely smaller, since I still had to
remove some software after the installation finished with a vdi
that was around 22 GiB. A vdi doesn't shrink, it only becomes
larger, e.g. by temporarily required virtual disk space.