linux Running Accordance as a Linux user through Gnome boxes successfully

[Phil76]

Hi Everyone,

 

As a Linux user I have always struggled to find a way to get Accordance to run at all. Using wine never worked (although I got close but the Accordance screens were all black and had errors related to Gecko installation in Wine that prevented Accordance from connecting to the internet properly). It seems like it is possible for Accordance 10 to work on Linux for some but I only started using Accordance at Accordance 11. Anyways I have found that the best compromise for now if I want to have accordance running in the background while using Linux is to use a virtual machine. Specifically what has worked for me is using Gnome boxes on Fedora 35. I recommend watching this video for getting windows 10 set up on gnomebox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1c5wiQhgZU . I also recommend optimizing windows 10 in the virtual machine as much as possible so that it runs smoothly. That would include the two downloads that are recommended in the video from Spice tools. On top of that I would recommend getting ccleaner and uninstalling as much as possible from Windows 10 in the tool menu. I also recommend using O&O ShutUp10++ software to disable background data retrieving processes that could be slowing down windows 10 (this video explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCkbgYCygss). I also disabled Intel AMT, Cortana, used no microsoft id on setup, deleted onedrive, in privacy settings I also turned off all Windows permissions and all App permissions in each section (5 under windows permissions and 22 under app permissions) (this video touches on how to disable Intel AMT and Cortana and the other steps that I took: https://youtu.be/25uEMYWefi0?t=375). Also helpful is having 4gigs of ram for the virtual machine (I have 16gigs in total) and having an ssd drive for everything to run on.

 

Anyways I got Accordance 13 fully set up and the performance of my windows 10 virtual machine has significantly improved after making all the adjustments detailed above. It is now running full-screen (initially the screen is small until the Spice tools are installed) and feels just about as fast as when I run windows 10 normally without a VM.

 

Supposedly Gnome boxes is much better for this then Virtual box or other VMs.

 

I hope this helps another fellow Linux user.