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Microsoft Ruined Windows (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days.

Normally I wouldn’t care too much, big tech ruins another thing, whatever.

But the problem is Microsoft has such a dominant market share that you can’t really escape them.

I guess unless you use a Mac or something I don’t know.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My problem is SolidWorks, SpaceClaim, etc. They do not run from my testing in Linux...Later I'll try getting them going in a VM. I just worry about the performance hit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Windows runs faster on a VM under linux than on bare metal

[–] AnomalousBit 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can you detail your VM setup? I’ve tried Windows 10 on several occasions using Qemu and VirtualBox and the UI lag has been complete ass, even after installing the driver packages for each VM host.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To have any chance of doing serious CAD work in a VM you are going to need to set up GPU passthrough so the guest OS can access the GPU directly. AFAIK Virtualbox doesn't do this. Some hints about further research can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU_virtualization.

I strongly doubt Windows will be faster in a VM, that's a pretty bold claim. But it should be possible to get it to an ok level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@AnomalousBit @metaStatic I'm not trolling, but is virtualization enabled in bios?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

How can that be? It's the same machine except you have introduced some overhead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

it's a half truth. a compatibility layer will always be slower than bare metal but main systems tend to get bogged down with excess software and general use. A VM will be optimized for the 1 thing you need to run, and maybe even use a snapshot so it's always the same system at max performance.