Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

alaninsitges t1_j8vu8yx wrote

I just went through this a couple of days ago because I needed to use an app that is Windows-only and doesn't work on Wine. Fully expected to spend several hours downloading, installing, fighting with VirtualBox and its extensions, etc. But decided to try Parallels instead and...holy hell! It was about three clicks to install Parallels and then it freaking asked if I wanted to install Windows 11, and I'm like...uh, yes? And it freaking downloaded Windows 11 from Microsoft, did an unattended installation, and just plopped me into the desktop in about 15 minutes. It works great, Desktop, Documents folders mapped back and forth, etc. The "coherence" feature lets that one app I need run in a window just like a regular Mac app.

Super impressed.

8

yoonssoo t1_j8yctps wrote

Yeah, I've been using parallels from over 10 years ago and it's always worked well. Though it's still ARM based Windows so it is pretty limiting... But all the ARM based Windows application can run just fine on Parallels and it's super easy.

1

__Loot__ t1_j9aa3bb wrote

I have a question, I have a media server called ebmy that uses windows and other programs that uses windows that runs all the time. If i use the mac will the windows programs still run in the background?

1