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You want to reboot the entire system when you need to use a Windows only application? Instead of just opening up a VM?
...after spending 2 weeks trying to figure out how to make it work? Yeah I'll restart the computer in 2 minutes instead, thank you.
You think making a VM takes two weeks? I'm pretty sure Microsoft provides images you can just pop into virtualbox, but it's been a while since I used VMs.
Also if you need to use the windows software alongside your regular workflow (eg: reading info out of the windows software with your eyes and then typing into your IDE or terminal), rebooting the whole thing is going to suck.
I dunno, I spent several hours trying before I gave up.
I can't fathom a scenario where I would need to do that.
Setting up a windows VM at my old job took like a few minutes, but I already had virtual box (I think that's what I used)
And I needed to see some software running in a Windows box while editing the code that talked to it.