Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

Works for Office Apps and Adobe apps, and a few other microsoft-owned ones. Seems very interesting way to integrate with Linux system.

Do not know if it works outside the Gnome/KDE ecosystems.

Setting up Windows 10 in KVM, using virt-manager. Goes through step-by-step for driver installation and so on, very helpful

Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux. Similar concept to distrobox, and somewhat of the predecessor I suppose (or at least it seems a more limited scope).

Maps a containerized environment to the host resources, allowing you to more seamlessly work on the guest environment.

Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.

Essentially creates containers for the requested distro but also integrates the home directory, maps X11/Wayland sockets, devices, journals, ssh agent and so on - it basically maps your host resources automatically to the guest machine so you can work on it as if it was your actual machine.

really nice guide for setting up pci passhtrough.

Does not work without vt-d capable processor (find out with e.g. cat /proc/cpuinfo -> list)

This post doesn’t cover fully setting up KVM

For a long time, I’ve been trying to figure out just how to get the best of both worlds in terms of running Windows and Ubuntu1 on my desktop PC. I’ve tried the obvious options: I dual-booted Windows and Ubuntu on my laptop for most of my university career, and more recently I’ve tried just running a Windows host with a virtualised Ubuntu in VMWare. Neither of these approaches fully satisfied me.