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

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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.

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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.

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