On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:57 AM, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 08:05:19PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
Hi All,
My son is off to university for CS this fall, and will need a laptop. I'm looking at purchasing one for him, so he can run Windows and Linux. I'm figuring on going the VM route.
I'm not too keen on recommending VM route.
Why not? Unless you have really underpowered machines, it's a perfectly viable way to run multiple operating systems simultaneously.
If you have the budget, get 2 identical laptops. If Linux doesn't work out, it can serve as "backup" Windows machine.
That seems rather impractical. Would you carry two laptops "just in case"?
He can use both OS's but is probably more familiar with Win, and his courses mandate a number of windows only tools. I'm heading in the direction of booting Win10 and using a VM running Debian.
A bit of research indicates that the two most popular free VM contenders are VMware and Microsoft's Hyper-V. Can anyone recommend one over the other? Are there better choices?
By now, you know 3rd contenders, VirtualBox. :-) But, since Hyper-V is part of Windows10, just use that.
The version of Windows 10 matters. Windows 10 Home does not have Hyper-V. You must be using Windows Professional or better for it to support Hyper-V. Regards, Clifford Ilkay +1 647-778-8696