cassowary VS scream

I'm using virtualbox on my x220, of I really need windows. However, if you setup a VM from scratch anyway, I would rather go with KVM/QEMU and maybe even try https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary, to launch the windows programms directly under Linux, with the VM running "in the background".

Overall, don't be afraid to switch distro (use Ventoy, load a few ISOs just in case), try to make sure you have an easy way of backing up your stuff (be it with a separate /home partition, or like I do with storing everything important in a separate drive and then using symlink to make it 'appear' in their 'default' places), and you can always use VM in a pinch (consult this guide or use quickemu or gnome-boxes)

In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI.

How are integrated VM solutions like cassowary on the surface pro? I need to run OneNote (this is a must as I am set all work on OneNote) to a decent level, with pen support.

Well, if I actually need office 365 for collaborating with someone, I use https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary to actually run the Office Suite in a Windows VM and have it seeminglessly integrated into Linux.

Microsoft Office run in a Windows VM and integrated into Linux via Cassowary (https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary). This requires installing libvirt and virt-manager in a rootful Distrobox (apparently Distrobox supports this only for Alma Linux and Tumbleweed, so the default Tumbleweed guest should be okay as long as you can run it with root) and installing the Python application Cassowary ("pip install cassowary") that then "finds" Microsoft Office in the VM and integrates it via FreeRDP so that you can for example click on an XLSX file in Dolphin and it opens in MS Excel running in the VM. Can this approach still work all in a Distrobox? So that basically I click on an XLSX file and it then opens in MS Excel running in the Windows VM in the Distrobox via Cassowary in the Distrobox? There's a lot of layers here, namely: MicroOS -> Distrobox -> [Cassowary + FreeRDP + Virt-Manager + libvirt] -> Windows VM -> MS Office, and I wonder if this would even work.

Imo QEMU/KVM has better performance than VirtualBox. There are also some tools like Cassowary to make Windows apps run as if they're native apps (e.g. without opening VM first). It's harder to setup than VirtualBox, though.

If you need to use complex Windows-only programs, use the KVM with GPU passthrough and cassowary. If it's reported to be working fine by the Wine's AppDB, you may want to use wine flatpak.

Not sure about NixOS specifically, but I'm pretty sure Scream is the widely accepted audio passthrough solution for Windows VMs.

I had a situation where there was a lot of noise on any usb connection from my PC to my DAC, but no noise on the usb from my jetson nano (similar to a raspberry pi). I set up a wireless audio interface between them using a project called Scream, so I could play audio on my PC and have it come out the usb port of the jetson. It creates a virtual sound card on the windows side, meaning you can send any/all audio from any source on the pc, which I think is what you're looking for. Warning, it was a pretty involved process and the final results were imperfect, it worked great 99% of the time but had weird pops and stutters 1% of the time.

Have you tried scream (with or without IVSHMEM)?

Hello all. I'm trying to send audio from my windows desktop pc to my linux mint laptop over an ethernet cable connected betwen the two machines as I don't have a router near them (I'm using wifi in both). I found this SCREAM tool to take the audio from the windows pc to the network but I'm not a networks expert at all. I wanna know if what I'm trying to do is even possible and if so, how can I set my linux to get the audio and play it on my headphones. Thanks.

Solved with Scream https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream

So thats really strange, so maybe try Scream audio it's on github with documentation https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream

How does connecting sound in pulseaudio compare to scream?