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speaking of this, is there a recommended way to run a windows binary within Ubuntu 18.04? I don't want to dual-boot windows because I read that installing windo
by silicon2401 7y ago
speaking of this, is there a recommended way to run a windows binary within Ubuntu 18.04? I don't want to dual-boot windows because I read that installing windows after ubuntu isn't recommended, but I don't have experience running a windows environment within Ubuntu either.
- cyberbanjo 7y agoWine is an emulation layer for Win32 on Linux. You can install Windows in a virtual machine if you have enough resources.
- silicon2401 7y agoThank you.
- abtinf 7y ago> Wine is an emulation layer Wine literally stands for “Wine is Not an Emulator”.
- dredmorbius 7y agoOther than Wine, you can run any virtualisation system (qemu, VirtualBox, VMWare, Xen, ...) which will effectively give you a Windows (or other) OS running within your Linux system. It won't have direct local OS access, but files and networking can be shared through most emulation systems, generally as SMB/CFS shares.