(June 28, 2019 at 3:36 pm)Succubus Wrote:Because if I try to install Windows 10 directly on my Acer Nitro 5, I get a BSOD. Setting it up in a virtual machine is relatively easy, but virtual machines are slow as hell (perhaps mostly because VirtualBox, for some reason that escapes me, doesn't let me to assign more than 1 GB of RAM and 128 MB of VRAM to a virtual machine, even though I have 8 GB of RAM). Apps running on WINE are allegedly even faster than ones running on Windows.(June 28, 2019 at 3:08 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Because I don't know if I somehow misconfigured WINE, and if a well-configured WINE would actually run my program properly, or if my program indeed can't be run on WINE. WINE is insanely hard to configure to run anything but Minesweeper or Notepad.
For the life of me I can't understand why anyone would jump through so many hoops in order to run Widows software in a Linux system. Wine and the various virtual machines are one royal pain in the arse to set up. Why not dual boot Windows and Linux?
Linux also boots rather slowly, because it logs a lot of ACPI errors during the booting. Acer offers some BIOS bug-fixes on its website... that you need to run Windows directly on hardware to apply.
