I am planning a migration to Linux, with Ubuntu as the likely distribution. Dorico is the one program that might cause an issue, and it’s too critical to my workflow to abandon.
A potential solution I’m looking at is Winboat. It claims to offer a streamlined way to run Windows apps on Linux. I’m specifically looking for any user experiences, tests, or performance trials regarding how well Dorico runs under Winboat. Any information or links would be extremely helpful!
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First of all Dorico won’t run in any Linux distribution, so you need some kind of virtualization layer. Winboat is basically a Docker container, that requires a Windows installation in it.
I have some strong doubts that Dorico will run in this kind of containerized environment and I don’t know anyone using Winboat for this purpose. There are lots of instruments and sounds and also the ASIO driver used by Dorico and all of that needs to be installed and working.
It is a pretty bold statement from Winboat to claim that all Windows apps simply run.
Not really that bold. A few years back I was running Notion (with all my sound libraries) in a Xen guest because I really didn’t want to migrate away from Linux and Wine was a catastrophe. I originally routed audio via JackRouter to my main linux box (with speakers/headphones) but eventually settled on normal cabling to my mixer. Aside from some RDP glitches, everything else was just fine.
There have been many posts about Dorico on Linux, which included actually getting it to run, to some extent, IIRC.
I would generally not suggest people to rely on some kind of virtualization or conversion layer to run critical software like this. What is the reason you are switching?
The OP is talking about running windows as a virtual machine. If the OP doesn’t care about peripherals (external audio interface), Dorico should run just fine.
Ah, OK - I thought it was a WINE-like thing.