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.
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?
At work I run Debian in virtualbox on windows. I much prefer it over vmware and hyperv. For a lot of stuff the linux on windows feature in Windows 10 covers a lot of use cases too. Not X applications though.
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?
Well personally I think the only good option says Thinkpad on it. Getting more than 1TB in a laptop is not cheap. 32GB ram can be done, although I have found 16 to be plenty so far. I did 24 for a while and didn't notice any change (other than adding 50% to windows's suspend/resume to disk time). -- Len Sorensen