Windows 10 is an abomination unto all living things.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
And for relatives, stick with win10 regardless of what the knuckleheads here tell you. They won't be the ones having to get phone calls to repair your in-laws' computers
How true. A lot of the people this knucklehead deals with are still on 7 (I was doing just that last evening), and I tell them all to stick with it, despite now being out of support, until their machine dies, rather than try to move them to anything Linux. For most of them, 10 isn't an option as 7 itself is already sluggish on their old hardware (despite the fact that Linux would probably work a lot better on said hardware if I tried). As much as I'm...ambivalent (?)...towards Windows 10, if someone must move away from 7, I do steer them towards it. And even though it's not something I would ever purchase for myself, I wouldn't tell someone to avoid a Mac if that's what they wanted - but I'm just not the guy to call if they have a problem with it. And so far, I don't know anyone (who can't do their own troubleshooting) who opted for one.
I'm with you all the way here. :)
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
IMHO, Win 10 isn't a good candidate to run in a VM.
Give it the resources it needs, and it'll be fine. Also...I'd try an OS that's newer than 7 to host a Win10 VM. I'd bet this is where your poor performance experience is coming from. Newer versions of Hyper-V do a far better job than...well, I honestly have no idea what you're using on 7. Clearly it won't be Hyper-V, so I can't bring much more to that particular aspect of the discussion. I came across a decent article (podcast discussion?) a while back and whoever was involved made a good point, and I totally believe it: MS has gotten rid of most of its QA people years ago, and most of the internal testing nowadays is done on VMs. Beyond this, they rely on the Windows Insiders program for additional feedback. So Windows 10 works well on VMs, the virtualized drivers are well-known and tested. Personally I never have any driver or hardware-related problem with Windows 10 on VMs. But the instant you throw it on "real" or strange hardware--anything that deviates from the predictable behavior of a VM - then you're more at risk of finding something that wasn't tested, or at least tested as thoroughly. To me that makes sense - we all keep hearing about people running into all sorts of horrible problems with upgrades, and it seems that the consensus is that they're getting *worse* over time, not better. Not a single month/Patch Tuesday ever goes by without having about some percentage of people running into issues. Yet the vast majority of my Windows 10 VMs ever have *any* problem with updates. So IMNSHO, saying Win10 isn't a good candidate for a VM...at least on Hyper-V...I just can't agree with that. It'd make the argument it might *better* as a VM than on real hardware for the reasons stated above.
dandy72 wrote:
I'd try an OS that's newer than 7 to host a Win10 VM. I'd bet this is where your poor performance experience is coming from.
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For the record, I'm pretty well versed in linux. I started running slackware on a 386 back in the day and since have set up exotic archlinux builds for embeddeds and such. I use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS precisely because I wanted to avoid stability/hardware issues but when they inevitably cropped up I knew I also had a huge user base to go to to look for solutions. People are down on Ubuntu but experience shows me a large user base, and a long running serviced version are the best bets for uptime. Still, no dice. I've had grub problems with Ubuntu's installer which render my machine unbootable unless i manually patch the boot sector and install grub by hand. Any update that updates grub and i have to repeat the process. I've had hardware problems crop up on devices that worked on the same friggen version of the same OS last time. I've had numerous fails with Ububtu's desktop/window manager. Bad enough that their graphics come up and obscure the window I'm working on, and the only way I've found to get rid of it is to restart the ridiculous window manager. It's just ... frustrating. And almost all I do with it is use it to host virtual machines. Even then, it just sucks. I'm heavily considering going to win7. And for relatives, stick with win10 regardless of what the knuckleheads here tell you. They won't be the ones having to get phone calls to repair your in-laws' computers. :laugh: Don't put linux on their machines. If it fails - and it will - their chances of working through the problem on their own are practically nil.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
I started running slackware on a 386 back in the day . . .
Ditto. (Praise Bob.) But did you install Slackware from 3 1/2" disks? I don't think it counts, unless you did.
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