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.
@yisraeldov Without your list of requirements, it's hard to give good advice. https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/
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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.
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I would think this depends on the vm you will use?
@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.
@yisraeldov I did this many years ago but I guess it's a different game now. So I can't tell you anything up-to-date on that. I try to avoid VMs since it introduced boundaries that were not the UX-friendly in any case.
@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?