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
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