It worked well enough for then, and I spent 99% of my time in that VM (browser, code editor, everything) and I only used Windows for recording / editing videos and playing games to avoid having to dual boot.īut even with vmware's really good disk performance there were performance issues at times, you're also splitting your memory up between your main system and your VM, it's not that efficient. As an aside, this feature has been removed from vmware for years now when it comes to Linux guests. Each GUI app you launched from the Linux VM would have its own floating window that you could move around like any other Windows window. Basically a way to seamlessly run graphical Linux apps in Windows. We probably have a long ways to go before we get there and it does come with its own sets of challenges and usability quirks even if the technical implementation is good.įor example, 8 years ago I used to run Windows 7 with xubuntu running in a graphical vmware VM using Unity mode. > I think running your dev environment in a VM is the future on all platforms. Way better than it was a few years ago though. But linux on the desktop still isn't entirely pain free. If you haven't upgraded in awhile and you can afford it, its a fantastic time to get a new system. Its unbelievably responsive compared to my 2016 MBP though. I hate how Ctrl+C is copy everywhere except the terminal, which needs me to Ctrl+Shift+C instead. Intellij also doesn't let me use the Meta key (Cmd / Start) as a shortcut modifier - so my muscle memory for navigation is all messed up and I can't rebind keys to fix it. Smooth scrolling doesn't work at all in IntelliJ. (That trick is only mentioned deep some a bug tracker). But Firefox needs an obscure XInput environment variable to make it work. I use a trackpad, and smooth scrolling works properly in most apps. And for some reason my second display doesn't vsync, so I get obvious tearing when I scroll or move windows around. Sometimes my mouse cursor is either invisible or for some reason duplicated, so I see a second stationary cursor hovering over my windows. I've been totally spoiled by Apple's spit and polish.įor example, I get random graphics bugs after waking from sleep sometimes. Its super fast and I love it, and its mostly stable and mostly great. There were some zen3 bugs in the stable kernel releases a few months ago, but it all works fine now.Īnd thats sort of the theme everywhere. I think all my hardware is fully supported - I haven't had to mess with drivers at all. I'm typing this on a linux mint, using mixed scale DPI screens and generally it all works pretty well.
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