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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

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[–] Gasandthefuhrerious 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not by default, but can be set up without much PITA.