Given the choice between a windows laptop where I can run #linux in a VM, or a Mac. What is the lesser evil? I have no experience with windows, but I do with mac.

@publicvoit @yisraeldov
I would go for the mac. It has a Terminal, after all.

@x2ero @publicvoit @yisraeldov To be fair, so does Windows and it's actually pretty good. I set it up for the devs at work so that they can use WSL properly.

@joshfowler @x2ero @publicvoit Well I would be running linux in a VM any way so only using windows as a host. New job's IT department only allows Windows and Mac. They need to have some antivirus and other things.

@yisraeldov @x2ero @publicvoit I would personally go for a Mac at this point as the OS feels more stable and doesn't force updates or resets settings randomly.

@joshfowler @x2ero @publicvoit My question is more how seemless will it be to run linux in a VM full screen. Can I ignore windows? and just pretend that I have a linux machine?

@x2ero @yisraeldov @publicvoit I know in the Linux world you can pass through a GPU via VirtIO so that the VM basically has direct access to the GPU and can do full 3D acceleration etc but I don't know about doing that with a Windows or Mac host.

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