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On real hardware the most basic BIOS setting should ideally work to install any operating system and vice versa. Any specialty needs over and above that should
by fuzzfactor 3y ago
On real hardware the most basic BIOS setting should ideally work to install any operating system and vice versa.
Any specialty needs over and above that should only be enabled in BIOS for more unusual cases that fewer specialized users might need. The kind of things that you could never expect every single mainboard to support anyway, but if you need that option that's what you might be paying extra for.
This is what a virtual machine was originally intended to substitute for.
The default setting needs to just work for any OS of any vintage, or it's not much of a substitute for the real thing.
When things like VMware (and OS's and hardware) started to deviate from this path years ago, it looked like there was going to be not as much of a sensible outcome in the long run.
- ThinkBeat 3y agoGood point I would think that their made sure the profiles they ship with the product "Linux Ubuntu", "Windows 10" etc configured everything to be right. But perhaps that is not possible anymore.
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>perhaps that is not possible anymore. Maybe they forgot, or there is some other reason? Seems to me modern Windows and Linux versions install on any given motherboard more interchangeably than ever, while VM's are giving more trouble than ever. Multibooting sure has never been easier, bare metal really can outperform, and if you need more than one OS at a time, there are so many extra unused PC's just waiting for reuse rather than discarding.