Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline

• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do IT support at my company. We are a small business, but we work on many government contracts. I’m personally not experienced enough on Linux to support it at a businesses level. Part of working on government contracts is that we have to be CMMC certified in the relatively near future, probably first or second quarter next year. I’d love to get off of Windows, but like I mentioned I don’t have the knowledge to get us there, and we’re pretty entrenched in Windows until at least after the audit. Maybe someday, but the Microsoft m365 business GCC High is built with that specific certification in mind. It would require changing everything about our business to switch, and I don’t care enough about the company to go through that.

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• bfg9k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But can I be fucked waiting 5 minutes for a VM to boot every time I need to use a Windows-only tool?

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  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t shutdown the VM. Instead, use shutdown -> save button in the virt-manager. Now your VM will launch in seconds next time you want to use it because it’ll be resumed from the saved state.

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      now your VM will start in seconds

      Cries in HDD

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      • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sounds like a great excuse for a bit of a hardware upgrade, SSDs have gotten pretty cheap. You can change your whole computing life for $30-50.

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  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could just use the earliest version of Windows that the software works (Windows 7 usually) and then keep the VM air gapped (aka no Internet connection)

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    • silverbax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let me introduce you to Adobe.

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