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. If you have the budget, get 2 identical laptops. If Linux doesn't work out, it can serve as "backup" Windows machine.
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.
As per laptop specs, I am figuring on getting something with a late model Intel i7, 32 GB RAM, and 1-2TB storage. I figure many laptops must meet this spec. Is there anything else I should be looking for?
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