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I don't have experience doing a native Linux install on the Surface Book, but I use(d) VirtualBox and use Linux every day for development (on Surface Book and M
by darzu 8y ago
I don't have experience doing a native Linux install on the Surface Book, but I use(d) VirtualBox and use Linux every day for development (on Surface Book and Mac). With virtualization technology being as advanced as it is, I don't think there is any appreciable performance difference to a native install assuming you have enough RAM for the extra OS.
- throwaway2048 8y agoanything involving the GPU (including desktop environment compositing) is dreadfully slow in a VM.
- darzu 8y agoReally? Did you check the "Enable 3D acceleration" checkbox in Virtual Box?
- throwaway2048 8y agoIts buggy, extremely feature limited, and slow.
- nine_k 8y agoI did, and it helped the speed. But is was plenty buggy, so much that I had to switch it off.
- vetinari 8y agoTry running a live distribution on bare metal. The performance difference is night and day.
- EpicEng 8y agoGoing the other way (Win10 on osx via VMWare) was horrible. Completely unusable. Windows was so slow I just couldn't get anything done.
- lostapathy 8y agoUnless ... you want to share a filesystem between the windows host and the vbox guest. In which case performance is god awful.
- e12e 8y agoFrom host to guest network filesytems (cifs/samba) should be OK?
- lostapathy 8y agoDepends what you're doing, honestly. Some software won't tolerate running off a network mount at all for various reasons, if so you're sunk. Some is just slow because it's inefficient. It's been a while since I had to resort to this, but accessing a big svn checkout over cifs is so slow as to be useless.
- Shorel 8y agoVirtualization technology is advanced but not perfect. Some of my own programs are 2 or 3 times slower doing CPU stuff under virtualization than under the raw machine.