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Decommissioned
i know, i was using RHEL and that uses DNF. i actually got wine installed once or twice to tinker with an old blackberry emulator and i had issues getting it working because it was some weird proprietary thing that didn't want to play nice for whatever reason.
in my attempt to find a workaround i kinda fucked up my wine installation and because of that i don't have a high opinion of it. complete user error on my part.
now obviously that has nothing to do with office 2010 or whatever i was leaking about earlier. i went the VM route because of that bad experience and because the version of Windows i selected to virtualize was 7 POSready, which is an extremely lightweight version of 7 meant for embedded applications and things like cash registers at stores.
i know nothing about security, but i felt more comfortable working in a VM since it was sandboxed from the rest of my system. also i had to give the OS internet access to activate Office and that's kinda sketchy on Windows 7
with some guest features enabled it functioned as a clunky "compatibility layer" in the sense that it was a full windows environment but barebones in practical features.
i allocated that VM 2GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores, never had any issues with performance.
