Same as for Hammy
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For me Canada is north but also southeastā¦
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You should be next level up now with fewer restrictions.
Ping me if you have any issues
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Huh! I always thought it was an incoming mail indicator. So you know if the postman has left something in there
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For those that donāt know, The āAustriaā rather than āAustraliaā is an āinternet thingā
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End of an era here. I needed to run some software, which wonāt run on anything but win 10 and up.
crap.
O.K. so I grabbed a Win 7 32 bit box from the closet of purgatory, and by scrounging, I managed to mount a 2009 mid range radeon video card in it, and have it up and running win 10 (on 2gb ram 
)
Short term, Iāve ordered 16gb ram to try and get a little more umph out of it, but itās clear my time has come to fully embrace 11, or possibly 12 depending on the time it takes to budget it.
On the bright side, my old āGoodā P.C. will likely become the āo.k.ā workstation (with new O/S), once Iāve built a new āGoodā P.C.
I guess conceding to the inevitable march of tech only when absolutely forced to means Iām officially OLD AS FUCK.
Also, get off my grass.
I guess this means the various P.C. components Iāve saved for ājust in caseā can now leave the closet of purgatory and head off to die somewhere else.
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Why not install linux?
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Two reasons.
Firstly, Iāve tried, and it just doesnāt work for me.
Secondly, the software I want to run on it is Windows only. And Iām sure somebody will point out emulation software, but thatās just another layer for stuff to get twitchy and go wrong. I need it smooth and consistently functional.
What software? Wine has gotten really pretty good
Not to argue, just curious.
1- What do you mean, didnāt work for you? As in didnāt āfeelā right? (I get that a lot)
2- What software?
I virtualize Windows using either parallels or virtual box but since switching to silicon cod all my previous images are trashed. Which sucks.
I wish there was a good vm that would let me virtualize Intel architecture in arm environments
This has not been my experience. Tried to run adobe products last year. No joy. Virtual box running windows is perfect.
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Sort of. An O/S should be invisible. It only exists to enable your work. With Linux, I found myself constantly interrupted in my work flow, and routinely found myself trying to āwork aroundā the differences. Basically spent more time working with it, than on it. With years of practice, that would go away, but I donāt want to invest years.
Welllllll, I wouldnāt 
want to go into too many ātechnical detailsā, but working in the machining industry has given me a pretty decent appreciation of the major CAD / CAM packages. In my last job, I used Mcam, and Iāve a little background in Catia as well. Itās been my experience that the more complex a program, the worse it fairs in WINE. Top shelf CAD would probably push it to the breaking point pretty quickly.
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What system were you running to begin with?
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Itās literally physically impossible to get good performance because virtualization has been leveraging paravirtualization for a decade+ now, which is the only way to get decent performance on guest machines. Basically you are passing through CPU and other resources directly to the guest. When your CPU is literally a different physical configuration of silicon, then 100% of the Intel architecture has to be fully emulated, which is always going to be slow as hell.
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Well at this point nothing exists so anytime would be better than what I have
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Really depends on the use case unfortunately. I meant more in the context of older windows software.
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So kinda. Obviously there will be performance hits, but many of todayās languages are interpreted instead of compiled, JavaScript is very fast but isnāt completed into true byte code. The emulator is basically just an interpreter
It depends on how you define performance, but for most applications it should be possible to get a perfectly usable result.
What are you trying to do? Windows 11 includes a compatibility layer for their arm version, and there are a few emulators for Linux
Win 7 64bit.
All Hail the King!
When I was a young man, I can remember dealing with those old farts who just wouldnāt give up on XP. Ah, the circle of life!
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Iām my company we deploy thousands of machines for single use, get them back to the warehouse and reimage them every other week.
I used to build the images but havenāt since covid. However the KMS scripts and many oobe scripts I wrote are still used today. With the recent image build for 11 some issues have popped up. It would be really nice if I could redeploy these former images with my M4, it would make diagnosing some of the problems much simpler.
Not to mention itās great to be able to deploy our server and client images at home to set up a virtualized environment for regression tests but thatās beside the point.
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