How does WINE work? Other VMs.

[Johnmakuta]

I am going to start running Linux on one of my builds. I still need Windows so I will be running it from a VM but I wanted to use WINE for a more elegant way of going about it. I still want to run the Adobe creative suite as well as Microsoft Office suite.

 

Will WINE run these?

 

Also, VirtualBox is great and all but it's a bit of a clunky piece of software. I wanted a VM that I could make into a borderless program so it looks just like I am running the OS. I also wanted be the full performance as running from bare-metal. Are there any you would suggest or do I have to keep running Windows to get the full potential of my graphics card and DX12. Thoughts?

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

I don't think there are any free visualization programs that allow full cpu and gpu pass through. Also you can make virtual box full screen by hitting right control + f. Another note wine doesn't work half the time.

[Johnmakuta]

13 minutes ago, LeapFrogMasterRace said:

I don't think there are any free visualization programs that allow full cpu and gpu pass through. Also you can make virtual box full screen by hitting right control + f. Another note wine doesn't work half the time.

That sounds fine but I'm more worried about the performance hit I would be taking. 

[ohJey]

1. anything newer than office 2007 doesn't work

2. adobe software wont work or it wont use your hardware properly

 

it's best to stay on windows

[CoffeeandBagels]

32 minutes ago, ohJey said:

it's best to stay on windows

 

[ohJey]

5 hours ago, CoffeeandBagels said:

 

(for your application)

[james3141]

 Using Linux is great it is light when comparing to Windows,you can use WINE which often works great.If your program don't play nice with WINE,use virtualbox or consider dual booting your devices o you can choose to boot your Windows system or Linux system.And sometimes you can find Linux version of that software(alternative)like using LibreOffice instead of using Microsoft office,some application even have browser version like Office Online.Hope this will help you.