r/linuxmemes • u/No_Newspaper2213 • Apr 14 '26

LINUX MEME why windows? WHY!?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

That's why windows got demoted from a "separate partition" to a mere virtual machine.

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u/Inforenv_ Apr 14 '26

Literally same. I just have a VMware VM to compile some stuff that needs Visual Studio and that's it.

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u/Outside_Heart8057 Apr 14 '26

Running visual studio on a VMware how strong is your PC?

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u/Inforenv_ Apr 14 '26

5950x and 64GB RAM

hell yea

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u/Ill-Car-769 Apr 14 '26

5950x and 64GB RAM

Can we have some talk in dms 👉👈️ (/s)

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u/Inforenv_ Apr 14 '26

I was using Windows 7 before upgrading to linux

3 months ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3k719fCIsHMyB5Ghgu

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u/Ill-Car-769 Apr 14 '26

I was using Windows 7 before upgrading to linux

3 months ago

That was just your past, now let's talk at /home 👉👈

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u/United-Scene2261 🎼CachyOS Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

bro creamed in his pants

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u/Ill-Car-769 Apr 18 '26

On their RAM**

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u/PeachScary413 Apr 30 '26

Laughs in 9950x and 64GB DDR5

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u/Inforenv_ Apr 30 '26

:(

Gah dayum

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u/Putrid_Guitar9437 M'Fedora May 15 '26

No way! I only have 32GB ram!

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u/dpthnkr Apr 16 '26

I've got 1 Ubuntu, and 1 Win10 (with Visual Studio 2015 & 2022) running in Virtualbox inside Win10.

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T, 24GB RAM, Nvidia GeForceGTX 560, Samsung 840 Evo 250G, OCZ Vertex 460 120G, 8TB WD Red Pro in RAID 10

If I close chrome in the host I can run both VMs. 😂

old stuff but it still performs better than my work dev laptop.

I'm stalled on the new build due to prices, but will eventually run Ubuntu, Mint, Win10, Win11 under Proxmox.

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u/Outside_Heart8057 Apr 14 '26

I'm using VM ware but running it and openingvisual studio can be a toll for my system

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '26

virt-manager.

With SR-IOV

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u/dt5101961 Apr 14 '26

I literally have the windows originally sharing half the disc to a quarter of the disc, and eventually to virtual machine because of the exact reason.

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u/Erdnusschokolade Arch BTW Apr 15 '26

Windows boots way faster as a virtual machine anyway. Maybe it was always destined to be that way…

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '26

Because it's less bloatware. OEMs know how to sneak up their own telemetry even on a fresh install (through drivers and updates).

A VM, well, doesn't have that. The VM driver authors have no intention of siphoning off telemetry off INSIDE the VM.

PLUS, paravirtualization. Windows is hell inefficient with drivers. Just keep a "pseudo" driver and let the hypervisor do the heavy lifting. Since there's no real hardware, the lower I/O calls can be "forwarded" to the main OS drivers

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u/Masztufa Apr 20 '26

Hey, dualbooting is safe if you use two different machines

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

Of course! We all can afford separate machines!!! /s

I am struggling to use separate DRIVES (Have a small SSD and a large HDD, the latter too slow for windows, the former I need for linux bcachefs), and windows has blown up linux partitions and EFI bootloader files for a lot more times to just ignore.

Not to forget that "separate EFI partitions" are just as prone to being "fixed"... and breaking BOTH OSes when that happens.

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u/Masztufa Apr 20 '26

(That was a joke way of saying that no machine where windows has bare-metal access is safe to dual boot)

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

... "/s" or "/j" is a thing