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Support / Re: Running a Virtual Linux Ma...
Last post by cod3poet - Today at 07:23:56 PMTo over simplify, Hyper-v turns the host AND The guest os(es) into virtual machines, The host os is a virtualized environment with direct hardware access, and further guest os(es) are 100% virtual, although later versions allow you to do some hardware passthrough. The have your cake and eat it too is tough. Mostly because of the limitations of the host hardware in this situation.
I use a Mac for work, but 70% of the productive stuff that I do is done from a windows machine I remote into FROM the Mac, and the other is 20% linux VM / Linux tools through homebrew. And the rest is Email and Chat and some browsing in 1 of 7 profiles in google chrome.
Yes a perfect world would be a performant MacOS under virtualization probably running Qemu/KVM with GPU passthrough which is only for recent and expensive video cards to get the buttery smooth mac like performance.
Secondly the lock-in for iMessage is purely intentional. Otherwise KDE would have been all over that with an app to allow you to read your messages in linux a decade ago!
In my hybrid world, I have keyboard and mouse connected to my laptop via usb-c Dock, that also does 4k60 output to a 43 inch TV. Then I use Synergy as a virtual KVM over my home network to the mac which is to the right of the TV. One keyboard and mouse, and unlimited operating systems. Just move the mouse to the far left of my windows machine MAC, far right of Mac and it's Windows with WSL2 and Arch! And for bonus nerd points, I have a Moonlight Game streaming connection setup to yet another box running Windows 11 that I can connect to from either machine.
The only difference is I am applying the right hardware to the right workloads.
I use a Mac for work, but 70% of the productive stuff that I do is done from a windows machine I remote into FROM the Mac, and the other is 20% linux VM / Linux tools through homebrew. And the rest is Email and Chat and some browsing in 1 of 7 profiles in google chrome.
Yes a perfect world would be a performant MacOS under virtualization probably running Qemu/KVM with GPU passthrough which is only for recent and expensive video cards to get the buttery smooth mac like performance.
Secondly the lock-in for iMessage is purely intentional. Otherwise KDE would have been all over that with an app to allow you to read your messages in linux a decade ago!
In my hybrid world, I have keyboard and mouse connected to my laptop via usb-c Dock, that also does 4k60 output to a 43 inch TV. Then I use Synergy as a virtual KVM over my home network to the mac which is to the right of the TV. One keyboard and mouse, and unlimited operating systems. Just move the mouse to the far left of my windows machine MAC, far right of Mac and it's Windows with WSL2 and Arch! And for bonus nerd points, I have a Moonlight Game streaming connection setup to yet another box running Windows 11 that I can connect to from either machine.
The only difference is I am applying the right hardware to the right workloads.
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Entertainment / Very good audio book - The Clo...
Last post by ssfc72 - Today at 08:36:28 AMA very good 7 hour audio book featuring the fictional retired detective, Hercule Poirot.
A secretary for hire is given a job to go to a blind woman's house for some typing work. She enters the house and finds a man dead, with 4 clocks on a table, all stopped at 4:15.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcnf6k2xtE
A secretary for hire is given a job to go to a blind woman's house for some typing work. She enters the house and finds a man dead, with 4 clocks on a table, all stopped at 4:15.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcnf6k2xtE
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Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: Run Microsoft Office 365 o...
Last post by fox - September 18, 2024, 07:22:35 AMIf you are referring to the cost of Crossover Linux, I got that for about $40; just look for specials. I know that the folks who develop Crossover contribute heavily to the code in Wine. I suspect that you can now run Office 365 from Wine if you look for instructions on the internet. It might run on PlayonLinux someday. I say that because it now runs Office 2016, which has a Microsoft account sign-in just like Office 365. Office 2010 is the latest version of MS Office that doesn't have a sign-in; it runs pretty well on Wine, POL and Crossover.
The other thing about the Crossover version that I didn't say enough about is that it allows you to sign in to Office 365 from your university account. Students and faculty of many universities get Office 365 "free" (the university pays for it but students and faculty don't), but until recently, you couldn't install and run the versions of Office on Linux that require a university sign-in. The problem was serial number. There is no serial number in the traditional sense with a university version. It either checks the university server for eligibility (if you are running a university computer and plugged in at the university), or it requires you to sign into your university account. So the private versions could run in Linux earlier than the university versions (from Office 2016 on).
The other thing about the Crossover version that I didn't say enough about is that it allows you to sign in to Office 365 from your university account. Students and faculty of many universities get Office 365 "free" (the university pays for it but students and faculty don't), but until recently, you couldn't install and run the versions of Office on Linux that require a university sign-in. The problem was serial number. There is no serial number in the traditional sense with a university version. It either checks the university server for eligibility (if you are running a university computer and plugged in at the university), or it requires you to sign into your university account. So the private versions could run in Linux earlier than the university versions (from Office 2016 on).
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Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: Run Microsoft Office 365 o...
Last post by Jason - September 18, 2024, 04:17:31 AMThat's good news! I've had to go back into Windows to update my skills to Office 365. Now maybe I won't have to.
It's a bit expensive for the everyday guy at $74 US. I wonder how much of this compatibility layer will filter to PlayonLinux.
It's a bit expensive for the everyday guy at $74 US. I wonder how much of this compatibility layer will filter to PlayonLinux.
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Linux Applications & Android apps / Run Microsoft Office 365 on Li...
Last post by fox - September 17, 2024, 02:43:06 PMYou can now do this with Crossover Linux; I used the current version (24.05). I tried it with a standard Microsoft Office 365 and with the University version of it. Both worked. I did it on Ubuntu 22.04, but to get the university edition, I had to go to my university website, download the installer on a PC, and copy it to my Ubuntu partition. (If you try to do this from a Linux partition, you won't get the option to download the PC installer and of course there is no Linux installer.) Crossover Linux has an automated installation process for Office 365; you search for the program and when it comes up, you have the option to install it. Click on the installer (Setup.exe file) and it does the installation automatically. It downloads some necessary PC files first, including fonts, and then the files of Office 365. With the university version, you can actually sign on from your university ID, and it remembers this. On my university website, it shows this installation as one of the five I'm allowed.
I haven't tried a lot of its functions yet, and I only tried Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The review functions on Word work.
All of this is big news because Codeweaver only recently figured out how to get Office 365 to work on their Crossover program. The overall program get 4 out of 5 stars for functionality, which applies to Word and Excel. Powerpoint only gets 3 stars.
I actually installed it for fun to see if it works. When I need MS Office, I use Office 2010, which I own and it is pretty reliable.
I haven't tried a lot of its functions yet, and I only tried Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The review functions on Word work.
All of this is big news because Codeweaver only recently figured out how to get Office 365 to work on their Crossover program. The overall program get 4 out of 5 stars for functionality, which applies to Word and Excel. Powerpoint only gets 3 stars.
I actually installed it for fun to see if it works. When I need MS Office, I use Office 2010, which I own and it is pretty reliable.
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Support / Re: Running a Virtual Linux Ma...
Last post by Jason - September 17, 2024, 04:09:57 AMQuote from: fox on September 15, 2024, 07:26:24 AMHackintosh is term that specifically refers to running the Mac OS on a PC computer.
I realize that. However, a VM client typically emulates a PC environment (the machine doesn't know that it's not a PC). So I thought it could be a way to get the Mac OS as a VM on a Linux host. But Hyper-V does it a different way, I believe. I don't think it emulates a PC environment. It uses the existing OS environment but in isolation. You could use the Mac alongside a PC with Linux and use a KVM to avoid rebooting. That's what I was looking at.
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Distributions / Re: Latest Linux Mint Upgrade ...
Last post by Jason - September 17, 2024, 03:53:22 AMQuote from: fox on September 15, 2024, 07:36:32 AMI still have a partition with Mint 21.3. I have a backup of it with TimeShift, but not a specific backup of my Home folder. (Note that the Home folder is not on a separate partition.) Can I then go to the Mint 22 partition (also without the Home folder on a separate partition) and restore just the Home folder from Mint 21.3? If not, what if I made a backup of just the Home folder on Mint 23 with a program like Backup? Could I then "restore" that folder in Mint 22?
I believe so. Your backup of /home will copy over the existing files in /home So settings will be replaced, too, unless you choose just your files. Since files will have permissions intact, you should create an account with the same username. But you can fix this later if necessary. Let me know if you have permission issues after restoring or if stuff doesn't have the proper settings, etc. It could be a permission issue.
QuoteI believe I can back up that Home folder with software called Backup?
Yep. But you will have to use that program to restore it as well. It zips the files and breaks them into chunks so you can't copy them back using the file manager. If you don't need the files to be compressed, it's probably easier to copy the files as is to a flash drive. Once you're set back up, use it to back up the personal folder regularly. It can do it automatically if you leave a flash drive inserted. It's incremental so it's fast. Unless you change a lot of big files a lot.
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Politics, Society and News. / Re: Harris-Trump post-debate r...
Last post by Jason - September 17, 2024, 03:30:57 AMI agree, Fox.
I was looking at the 2020 numbers and interestingly, there is the same gap between Harris and Trump now as there was on election day between Trump and Biden. But there are fewer of what they considered battleground states now. So the effect of that this time (assuming it holds), I don't know. I don't get why the US seems to do so few polls in the battleground states since that's where it's all decided.
But then again, you could say the same about Canada, maybe worse. We don't do provincial polling in federal elections. However, the election is usually decided by a minority of provinces, the biggest and the most swing provinces: Ontario, Quebec, and BC. And to a worse extent, you don't even have to get 50% to get a province, unlike the US. Well, at least close to 50%. You can win a majority government with only 40% of the vote even if that's only in Ontario Quebec (200 of 343 seats).
I was looking at the 2020 numbers and interestingly, there is the same gap between Harris and Trump now as there was on election day between Trump and Biden. But there are fewer of what they considered battleground states now. So the effect of that this time (assuming it holds), I don't know. I don't get why the US seems to do so few polls in the battleground states since that's where it's all decided.
But then again, you could say the same about Canada, maybe worse. We don't do provincial polling in federal elections. However, the election is usually decided by a minority of provinces, the biggest and the most swing provinces: Ontario, Quebec, and BC. And to a worse extent, you don't even have to get 50% to get a province, unlike the US. Well, at least close to 50%. You can win a majority government with only 40% of the vote even if that's only in Ontario Quebec (200 of 343 seats).
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Support / Re: "Clean install" of Mint 22
Last post by Jason - September 17, 2024, 02:25:40 AMQuote from: buster on September 15, 2024, 07:56:22 AM" A fresh install is going to overwrite the entire partition including/home."
Pretty sure this isn't totally true. If /home is a separate partition, and you use exactly the same partitions, you can save some stuff by not formatting this partition. Only allow / and swap to be formatted. Did this a few times with Mint.
I said "partition" not "partitions". Note the singular use. Since I said the single partition "including /home" then I'm saying it will wipe it out if /home is on there. That's entirely true. Had I said the plural version, you would have been right to correct me.
And Fox also noted /home wasn't on a separate partition in his first post. #10
Support / Re: "Clean install" of Mint 22
Last post by buster - September 15, 2024, 11:28:51 AM"Home is not in a separate partition."
Ah well.
Ah well.