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Believe it or not, it's still possible to buy brand-new x86_64 Windows laptops that don't support VT-x or AMD-V. Pure-software VMs are still unbearably slow for

by cbhl 13y ago

Believe it or not, it's still possible to buy brand-new x86_64 Windows laptops that don't support VT-x or AMD-V. Pure-software VMs are still unbearably slow for development. Plus, people will use what they're familiar with. I see first-year students trying to set up gcc on Windows all the time (because the first-year assignments in my program are written in C; other programs here use Dr. Racket or C#) and it doesn't always end well. I did manage to get Apache set up on Windows back in the early 2000s and at the time it was less effort than setting up dual-boot (but only by a very small margin).

bane 13y ago
> to buy brand-new x86_64 Windows laptops that don't support VT-x or AMD-V That is true. At my old job they wanted me to do some VM work with the brand new laptop they bought me, didn't have the virtualization extensions and that was that. Way back when I was in school, Mac laptops were very much not the norm, and when we started working with gcc, the teacher knew to tell everybody to either install linux or cygwin. Everybody installed cygwin. It worked fine enough for what we needed it for.