i'm running debian in vmware workstation player on windows 7 at work as i'm unable to run it as the os on the laptop* (thinkpad t440s). it's not great but it's

i'm running debian in vmware workstation player on windows 7 at work as i'm unable to run it as the os on the laptop* (thinkpad t440s). it's not great but it's a whole lot better than not doing it. the performance penalty for gui applications is fairly obvious (sluggish) but most of the things i'm running wouldn't work (containers etc.) or are actually faster (eg. rm -rf node_modules && npm install). being a couple of years old the battery is pretty much non-existant either way so i can't comment on that and i'm not using shared folders either (not using the host os at all). * not because it's not possible, org policy.