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I'm curious: why not run one or the other in a VM? Looking at Mike's resume, the technologies he is working with (LAMP stack, Ruby, PHP) seem like they would r

I'm curious: why not run one or the other in a VM? Looking at Mike's resume, the technologies he is working with (LAMP stack, Ruby, PHP) seem like they would run perfectly fine in a VM. I've been doing embedded development (with a Linux based toolchain) on a Windows 10 host with Ubuntu in a VM, and it seems to be plenty nice on modern hardware (and a lot of RAM). And I don't have to make a choice to boot back and forth: Two systems for the price of 1.5. :) Edit: My question aside, I fully appreciate the article's primary goal, which is to document the nonobvious hoops the author had to jump through to get dual boot to work. Thanks!

skohan 6y ago
I dual-boot on my media PC, where Ubuntu is my primary system, and I boot into Windows to play a few video games which don't work in Proton. That's one case where you don't want to pay the performance overhead for virtualization, but I'm sure there are plenty of other cases where dual-booting is preferred.
- IvyMike 6y ago
  I agree it's not for every use case, but in Mike's specific case, I'm still curious what his bottleneck or "this just doesn't cut it in a VM" piece of software is.
  - skohan 6y ago
    Do you know what his use-case is? I don't see it stated in this article.
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matharmin 6y ago
I run Ubuntu on a Dell laptop. I still keep the OEM Windows copy installed for one reason only: Contacting Dell support for warranty-related issues. This usually requires running their Windows-only diagnostics tools.
mkasberg 6y ago
It's a reasonable question. I've run Linux as my primary OS for years, and I have no desire to run Windows as my primary OS. (Linux is what I'm used to.) My primary goal with the Windows partition was gaming, so it made more sense to dual boot than run Windows in a VM. So dual-booting made the most sense for me, even though as you say a Linux VM can be a great dev experience too.

skohan 6y ago

I dual-boot on my media PC, where Ubuntu is my primary system, and I boot into Windows to play a few video games which don't work in Proton. That's one case where you don't want to pay the performance overhead for virtualization, but I'm sure there are plenty of other cases where dual-booting is preferred.

IvyMike 6y ago
I agree it's not for every use case, but in Mike's specific case, I'm still curious what his bottleneck or "this just doesn't cut it in a VM" piece of software is.
- skohan 6y ago
  Do you know what his use-case is? I don't see it stated in this article.
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matharmin 6y ago

I run Ubuntu on a Dell laptop. I still keep the OEM Windows copy installed for one reason only: Contacting Dell support for warranty-related issues. This usually requires running their Windows-only diagnostics tools.

mkasberg 6y ago

It's a reasonable question. I've run Linux as my primary OS for years, and I have no desire to run Windows as my primary OS. (Linux is what I'm used to.) My primary goal with the Windows partition was gaming, so it made more sense to dual boot than run Windows in a VM. So dual-booting made the most sense for me, even though as you say a Linux VM can be a great dev experience too.