Dual boot windows/linux

1. 2019-09-04 at 9 PM UTC

   #41
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Originally posted by Bueno If you make a VM you dont have to partition anything really.
   Guessing you dont have experience with VMs, think of it as an emulator or an OS.
   
   I am actually using one right now, finishing up some coding of the sort-by members function:

   
   Does Ubuntu in virtualbox suck as bad for you as it does for me? I did it for a class on an OSX host and the DE was a sluggish heap of shit. I tried bumping the RAM up to 8GB* and turning off all the compiz wankery and it was still horrible. If I don't install X and the DE it's great. I'm guessing the DE leans on the GPU and virtualbox is emulating that on the CPU but jesus, I really shouldn't need a dedicated GPU to run a barebones clean install of the supposedly "inclusive" linux distro.
   
   * Which I should not need to run a linux system when all I was using was GCC and vim
2. 2019-09-04 at 9:03 PM UTC

   #42
   

   Sudo Black Hole [my hereto riemannian peach]

   Originally posted by Lanny Does Ubuntu in virtualbox suck as bad for you as it does for me? I did it for a class on an OSX host and the DE was a sluggish heap of shit. I tried bumping the RAM up to 8GB* and turning off all the compiz wankery and it was still horrible. If I don't install X and the DE it's great. I'm guessing the DE leans on the GPU and virtualbox is emulating that on the CPU but jesus, I really shouldn't need a dedicated GPU to run a barebones clean install of the supposedly "inclusive" linux distro.
   
   * Which I should not need to run a linux system when all I was using was GCC and vim

   
   Use xubuntu or whatever one has the mouse in the logo, it runs a lot better I find
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3. 2019-09-04 at 10:15 PM UTC

   #43
   

   Bueno motherfucker
4. 2019-09-08 at 1:19 PM UTC

   #44
   

   Grimace motherfucker [my enumerable hindi guideword]

   Originally posted by Lanny Does Ubuntu in virtualbox suck as bad for you as it does for me? I did it for a class on an OSX host and the DE was a sluggish heap of shit. I tried bumping the RAM up to 8GB* and turning off all the compiz wankery and it was still horrible. If I don't install X and the DE it's great. I'm guessing the DE leans on the GPU and virtualbox is emulating that on the CPU but jesus, I really shouldn't need a dedicated GPU to run a barebones clean install of the supposedly "inclusive" linux distro.
   
   * Which I should not need to run a linux system when all I was using was GCC and vim

   
   The problem was the OSX host. Unless you were running it from a very high-end MacBook Pro or a Mac Pro, your experience would certainly be horrible. The MacBook Pros just don't have the umph to do it. They often have shit dual graphics like AMD/Intel HD that simply can't easily handle both the host and guest without performance hits to the guest. Ubuntu, with all it's pretty shit, certainly taxes it. Even if you turn all the pretty off, typical MacBook Pros are just not suited for this sort of thing.
   
   Running from Windows 10, on a custom built PC with 16GB DDR4 RAM, M.2 SSD, Ryzen 7 1600x CPU, and currently an AMD RX550 GPU, it's essentially flawless given you allocate enough CPU cores and RAM while still leaving your host enough to run it. I've ran OSX, Linux, BSD, other versions of Windows, Android, and some other obscure OSes through a VM and honestly never had an issue/
5. 2019-09-08 at 6:35 PM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Originally posted by Grimace The problem was the OSX host. Unless you were running it from a very high-end MacBook Pro or a Mac Pro, your experience would certainly be horrible. The MacBook Pros just don't have the umph to do it. They often have shit dual graphics like AMD/Intel HD that simply can't easily handle both the host and guest without performance hits to the guest. Ubuntu, with all it's pretty shit, certainly taxes it. Even if you turn all the pretty off, typical MacBook Pros are just not suited for this sort of thing.

   
   Yeah, I mean integrated graphics aren't the greatest thing in the world, but damn, I can run win 7-10 as a guest and it's perfectly fine. Ubuntu's DE alone seems to slow down to an absolute crawl when running on emulated hardware. This is supposed to be the OS that people in the 3rd world who can't afford a windows license can use but it's so resource intensive (or at least it is under emulation) it'd be cheaper to buy a lower end machine and just shell out the cash for the damn license.
6. 2019-09-08 at 7:10 PM UTC

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   Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Dark Matter [my scoffingly uncritical tinning]
   I'm on Ubuntu MATE, which is Gnome 2 based. Not everyone is a unity-fag.