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Question About Virtual Machine under Linux for work (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by TheFonz@lemmy.world to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world
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Hi,

I'm considering transitioning completely to Linux for my main workstation. However, due to the nature of my work I rely extensively on a few Autodesk products (namely AutoCAD, Revit) as well as Ms OneDrive to coordinate with clients. I did some research and these applications are not available natively and can't run through Wine. So I was thinking setting up a virtual machine with a windows image in order to run these two programs. They don't need extensive GPU. I was wondering if there are any obstacles / issues I should be aware if I chose to go this route? Thanks!

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[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Should be fine if autodesk doesn't do the same crap as solidworks, which won't allow installing on a vm with some licenses, in my case student license

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ugh. I decided to use an old desktop and use remote desktop. It's not ideal but might be more functional then virtualization

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's what I did too, just controlled my windows laptop with anydesk. I can't plug it into my monitor and staring at a laptop screen destroys my neck, so that was the next best thing...until anydesk suddenly became shit and started crashing, image became too blurry to see any text, huge latency.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I have two desktops so I'm starting with a kvm switch before I move into a remote desktop situation. Let's see how it goes.