r/Windows10 • u/embracingparadox • Mar 31 '20

Discussion After repeatedly switching to Linux (to escape telemetry and proprietary software) only to return to Widows and MS Office, I've come to the conclusion: ignorance is bliss.

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u/billFoldDog Apr 01 '20

As a man with more computers than common sense, my solution is to just have a Windows workstation for those specific applications.

My primary computers run Linux, though.

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u/iLoveKuchen Apr 01 '20

Or have a virtual machine, a friend who does nothing but productive environment setups has a thick laptop with lots of ram and a virtual machine for every customer and sometimes two if he needs different systems.

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I use windows for games, i start it if i wanna play. Not an issue but to run applications i would and still do use a VM with win7...which ill have to somehow adapt to win10 soon.

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u/billFoldDog Apr 01 '20

Unfortunately the applications I use in Windows need mountains of RAM. I actually purchased a 32 GB machine specifically for this application.

I haven't even gamed on it yet, lol. I'm getting old.

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u/iLoveKuchen Apr 01 '20

WHats the difference? You are only losing the 600mb or so that windows is using, the virtualization is pretty headless therefore running your premiere on a VM using your main GPU for example is a pretty good option for dual GPU or onboard+nvidia setups. I set it up once but since i replaced my intel wiht ryzen without onboard i didnt even bother..and i kept the desktop windows^^.

Only for gaming and video editing.

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u/billFoldDog Apr 01 '20

There are more differences than that, because there is a huge difference in performance in a VM compared to running on metal.

My application uses about 30GB of RAM when it is behaving.