WINE and Proton are great, but it really depnds on what programs in particular are needed. Even one unsupported application can be a dealbreaker when no alternatives exist or are acceptable substitutes.
VMs have their own drawbacks. There are some projects to integrate a Windows VM with Linux (WinApps), but it won’t quite integrate fully. Graphical performance is bad without a GPU to pass through (Intel GVT-g kind of works, but is a massive pain to get working).
WINE and Proton are great, but it really depnds on what programs in particular are needed. Even one unsupported application can be a dealbreaker when no alternatives exist or are acceptable substitutes.
You can run them in a VM…
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You can dual-boot in that case. VMs are pretty good these days though - you may be surprised how well things work.
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VMs have their own drawbacks. There are some projects to integrate a Windows VM with Linux (WinApps), but it won’t quite integrate fully. Graphical performance is bad without a GPU to pass through (Intel GVT-g kind of works, but is a massive pain to get working).
There’s a kernel module to get SR-IOV (the replacement for GVT-g in newer Intel GPUs) working on Linux, and Intel are working on upstreaming it.