I actually considered creating a second user on my laptop purely for development work but correct me if I'm wrong but is it not easier to backup a VM image (a single file AFAIK) than backing up in your scenario? With a VM I could simply copy the dev image onto a different machine or even the same machine if I reformat for example
-- Thanks Tom On 13 March 2015 at 11:38, David Nixon <[email protected]> wrote: > I've found that I create a second user on my Windows laptop so that then I > can have all settings/bookmarks/short cuts/apps/desktop separate but > without the overhead of running VMs...I use to run VMs though. Things like > Google Chrome/Drive also work well if you have separate accounts for > personal/work etc. > > > > Thanks, David. > > > > > *david nixon* > > senior developer, hordernIT | www.hordernIT.com.au > > Melbourne Office - level 3, 480 Collins Street, Melbourne +61 (0)3 9620 > 0444 > Geelong Office - Suite 102, 78 Moorabool Street, Geelong, +61 (0)3 5222 > 1672 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Greg Keogh" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 13 March, 2015 10:19am > To: "ozDotNet" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OT] Dev environment setup > > Tom, because I'm just a one-man-band I prefer to have the dev > environment on my real machine, otherwise sharing a standard VM would be > worth considering. I was forced to go back to VS2012 for a few months so I > set it up in a VM and it worked perfectly, but you have to fiddle with > buttons to make it go over dual monitors, then it would hide stuff on the > real machine and I got sick of going back back-and-forth. So mainly for a > pleasant desktop experience I prefer to develop in the real machine. I > still have that VM in case I need it, and I have another VM with a > duplicated VS2013 environment so I can perform "cold checkouts" and coax > everything to build (which is usually quite a struggle!). > I have other "test" VMs running Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and > Ubuntu Linux. I even have one running Windows 95, but it was just an > experiment to see if it was possible. The invention of the VM was a > fabulous leap into the future > *Greg K* > > On 12 March 2015 at 15:50, Tom P <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> How do the experienced devs here setup their personal laptops/desktops >> for development? Do you just install VS directly on the machine and not >> worry about it or use "virtual machines" (just learning these) to isolate >> the dev stuff? Any good reasons for the latter or simply do it as a "just >> in case"? >> -- >> Thanks >> Tom >> >
