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VirtualBox FTW. On my I7 laptop, it's about the same as if I was running Windows as the primary OS. (I get the same performance on my desktop (Win7 in a VM on Linux).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That thing seems to hate my USB ports. I'm running it under linux as the host OS and every once in awhile it will allow me to capture a USB port so my windows VM can use it, but usually when i try, it captures, but when the OS tries to use it, whatever device the USB is virtualizing (like MIDI ports for example) end up "in use"
Every three times I wave a dead chicken over it, it works.
I'm hoping i have better luck with VMware, but for other reasons I'm done running linux as a primary OS.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Is Parallels a hypervisor? Sorry I'm confused. I was considering trying VMWare's hypervisor on the machine i'm getting soon. If it is, I'd love to know, because I want to know as much as I can about other people's experiences using them.
Thanks in advance. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Something is amiss. I run W10 on parallels. I have it on an external SSD, using USB 3.0 or thunderbolt. My MacBook is some 5 years old. Performance isn't like it is on my Linux workstation but is very usable. Mouse is smooth. Maybe you aren't holding your mouth right.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Maybe if I hold my mouse in the other hand?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I've done similar to that!
My other favorite "why isn't the website working" is when I take a screenshot and paste it into Paint for some highlighting later on, and then try and click on the buttons or other controls on the Paint window instead of the actual browser tab. 
Ironically, just yesterday I saw one of my coworkers do the same thing!
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I'm disappointed. I thought you were going to tell us about an Overclock moment of the day! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I read OCD and immediately thought about how I dropped a tea mug about a year ago and now have an uneven number of tea mugs in my house, which still bothers me.
2020 really was a tough year! 
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The better half asked me to take her to one of those restaurants that make the food in front of you...so I took her to Subway.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Well, at least you didn't take her to a meat processing plant!
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When I was about 9 we had a field trip to a slaughter house. Was quite an experience and of course we boys made it all the more uncomfortable for the young ladies.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Marc Clifton wrote: Well, at least you didn't take her to a meat processing plant!
Makes me think of Roald Dahl's short story, "Pig" (not to be confused with his poem of the same title! I am referring to the short story from the "Kiss, kiss" collection).
The short story has actually earned an entry in Wikipedia (Pig[^]), but anyone who has read Roald Dahl short stories know very well that a "Plot summary" has next to zero value compared to the text itself. (Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the Wikipedia entry at all ...)
Before introducing Herself to a bottle of high class wine: Read Roald Dahl's "Taste". I think that story is the pinnacle of Roald Dahl's sophistication in gradually building up an intense tension - and his masterly composed final surprise (which, as all Roald Dahl lovers know, is his most prominent hallmark). "Taste" is actually available online, at Taste - Roald Dahl (short story no. 32)[^]. For those who do not know his writing style, this is a very good place to start!
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trønderen wrote: For those who do not know his writing style, this is a very good place to start!
I will take a look! (or, more accurately, a read!)
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Am I alone in being confused? That linked-to 'Taste' story seems to have some serious flaws - I saw the twist coming, but couldn't fathom out the disparity - anyone else reading it will surely see my reasons for confusion. Does anyone have a link to a more reliable version?
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- Open CMD prompt window as admin
- net stop wuauserv (may have to try a few times)
- sc delete wuauserv
You're welcome.
modified 8-Jan-21 13:47pm.
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Install Linux
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Upgrade to Windows 7.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Problem is that new PCs are almost not doable with Win 7 anymore due to the absence of drivers for the new hardware.  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, you are a programmer. Write it! 
Sorry for the bad humor. I really miss 7. It was far better thought out than what we have now...
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I am still in 7 but I am replacing my PC soon.
I will buy it with windows 10 pro, but I 'll try linux too. Let's see if the windows 10 stay...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The problem with Linux is that it doesn't have Visual Studio.
Not because I use Visual Studio, but because so many others do.
I do use VS myself, but the important thing is that VS has enabled countless developers to create equally countless software tools - from super-complex software suites to nifty little applications. That is what makes me stick to Windows as my main platform.
In several rounds, I have provided some *nix installation for myself, parallel to my Windows installation. Every time, I have ended up returning to the Windows machine for this and that and that. Photoshopping, video and sound editing, even text editing, sound/video capturing (/ripping), email, household accounting, sound / video playback and archiving, ...
And hobby software projects using VS, because I share them with Windows based friends. Because they, like me, have concluded that that is where to find photo, video, sound, and archiving tools they can handle. I guess that there are *nix tools out there that I could use for building Windows applications usable for my friends, but will any of them claim to be significantly better than VS?
Whenever I have had a *nix machine in active operation, my use of it has been used for what a *nix machine is best at: Building software for other *nix machines. For that, it is unsurpassed. The last few years, I haven't had a single such hobby project, so currently I have no operational *nix machine. I know of no utility outside the realm of *nix software development, of interest to my daily life, provided in so much better way (or at all better!) that it is worthwhile switching over to the *nix machine for running it there.
I am in the process of designing a software structure for managing various home aspects (call it "home automation", but that's a long discussion!) where *nix aficionados would claim "But that is a server function! Servers are better run under *nix!" Or maybe not... Having to relate to utilities/libraries maybe handling 7-bit ASCII only, requiring one of umpteen different quoting conventions for handling file names and argument strings, inability to handle multiple-stream files, ... And so on. For a few single point, *nix servers might be better. But the extra effort of adopting them to interact with user-friendly front ends, and to handle data from front ends without problems, creates so much bother that I need good arguments for accepting it.
Today, running a Windows service, or server, really is straightforward. Thirty years ago, you were comparing smoothly running *nix servers with MacGyver Windows solutions - That is old history, and no longer an argument for spending resources on making gateways into the *nix world. *nix must offer something of value by its own - must provide a convincing answer to "What's in it for me?" ... Where "me" is something else than another *nix software developer.
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If I buy the computer how I am thinking to buy it a Windows VM running under Linux will still have more resources available as my current main computer.
I will buy it with Windows 10 professional, then format and clean reinstall, do an image... and then give it a try.
If it annoys me as I am already experiencing with support at my relatives... I think I try Linux pretty soon, and then decide what I do with my main OS.
But for all what you say... I think a VM will do it.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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One of the solutions I tried, years ago, was running Windows in a VM. Virtualization technology was less mature than it is today, the hardware support not like on modern CPUs. So some drivers wouldn't run. And performance was sluggish - maybe not for lengthy, CPU-intensive processing; it was more a problem of latency: immediate response like keyboard echo on screen and mouse handling felt as if signaling through a rubber band.
A few years ago, we introduced VMware at work (as a test configuration management tool, to be able to run exactly the same test setup ten years later, without regard to underlying hardware) - I guess most people consider VMware as "mature" technology. All drivers relevant for our setup did work, but we experienced significant latency in the USB handling - so bad that the test driver had to be modified to handle it. When going from USB2 to USB3 (we needed the higher capacity; the software/firmware to be downloaded to the device under test had increased by orders of magnitude in a few years), we dropped the virtualization and searched for other ways of test configuration management.
I may be setting up a VM machine at home. Every now and then, I pick up some old Win16 software that won't run on a 64-bit Windows 10, but I can run it on my old Windows 98 license. Another VM can run some *nix, for the few things where *nix software can do things significantly better. But for my everyday tools, I will avoid driver issues and latency/performance issues by running directly on physical, non-virtual hardware. I sure recognize that VMs today are different from what I tried to make work 10+ years ago, but the more recent experiences at work tells me that I am far safer if the hardware is real, not only something pretending to be hardware, especially when doing low level programming.
If the majority my everyday tools were *nix based, I guess I would opt for running on a *nix base, with Windows in a VM. That is not the case. I leave VMs for the less used tools. For me, that includes Win98 and *nix.
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