On 29.06.2016 01:16, boB Stepp wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
What about running Win7 in a virtual machine?
What type of performance hit will I take when running CPU intensive
processes? I don't yet have any real experiences with running virtual
machines. If this is acceptable, I am willing to forget the dual-boot
idea and just jump in the deep end with Linux. The only thing I would
hate is reinstalling Win7 into the virtual environment and the endless
sequence of updating ...
Of course, there is a performance hit when using a virtual machine.
After all, you have a running Windows or Linux, whichever way round you
do things, from which you start it.
How much that matters, depends strongly on what you want to do though.
After all, you could do performance-critical stuff in your real OS
instead of inside the VW.
I still like dual-boot better for home use. If you have multiple users
or even just guests they might not all be used to having to start a VM
to use Windows.
Otherwise, I like:
Linux Mint. Good software repositories, more conservative than Ubuntu,
not as stick-in-the-mud as Debian. Based on Debian/Ubuntu so the quality
is good, mostly aimed at non-hard core Linux geeks.
Alan obviously likes this distro. And my teacher wife at the
beginning of this summer break switched several of her class PCs to
Mint. Be nice to be writing software for the same environment, so
this might be a positive here.
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