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I raise you a whole VM. Seriously, the reproducibility and ability to share a vm is amazing, especially with gzip.
by ungamedplayer 5y ago
I raise you a whole VM.
Seriously, the reproducibility and ability to share a vm is amazing, especially with gzip.
- dotancohen 5y agoThe VM performance hit is far too hard to recommend it for actually running applications. I'll use it to dev for another system (e.g. a Python backend for a web app) but I would not spin up a VM to e.g. compile LibreOffice or -shudder- actually run LibreOffice.
- wutbrodo 5y agoWould it really be an issue to run LibreOffice in a VM on a modern machine? Back in the bad old days of ten years ago, I used to run a Windows 7 VM on my Ubuntu laptop of RAM to watch Netflix. It was pretty tight with 2GB of RAM, but it worked fine.
- dotancohen 5y agoI suppose you're right, now that I think about it I've heard of Linux users running Windows in a VM for MS Office.