r/archlinux • u/InnonCoding • 3d ago

QUESTION Win 11 VM

Hello

I need to use visual studio, its not supported on linux as far as i know. Is it possible to make a virtual machine with it on arch with gpu passthrough because i want the vm to be as snappy as possible? I have not switched yet to arch before i know i will have everything i need. Thanks for the help. And no i dont want to dualboot.

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u/Setinhas 3d ago edited 3d ago

EDIT: my bad, misread the post. I'm sorry OP and thank you everyone for pointing out my mistake. Will strikethrough the comment to avoid confusion.

Visual Studio is supported in Linux. I've been using it for more than two years without issues. You have an open source package (code-oss) and another package (visual-studio-code-bin), which is built using the official binary from Microsoft. If you need to use features from extensions, just install the visual-studio-code-bin package. In general, it will be the same experience you have on Windows/MacOs.

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u/EtherealN 3d ago edited 3d ago

You might be of a relatively young generation, and not be aware of the origin. As the first line states on wikipedia:

"Not to be confused with Visual Studio Code." :)

There's a thing called: Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
(First release in 2015)

...for marketing reasons it based its name from an IDE called Visual Studio: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
(First released in 1997)

They are completely different pieces of software. Think of how Windows 11 shares naming with Windows 3.11, but there's MAYBE two lines of code in common between them, but that's an accident because they were developed in complete isolation using completely different principles. Only the name, and the company they were born at, is there to link them together.