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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by darzu on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:21PM (#18131812)
I don't have experience doing a native Linux install on the Surface Book, but I use(d) VirtualBox and use Linux every day for development (on Surface Book and Mac). With virtualization technology being as advanced as it is, I don't think there is any appreciable performance difference to a native install assuming you have enough RAM for the extra OS.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by EpicEng on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:33PM (#18131943)
Going the other way (Win10 on osx via VMWare) was horrible. Completely unusable. Windows was so slow I just couldn't get anything done.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by Shorel on Saturday October 06, 2018 @02:45PM (#18156588)
Virtualization technology is advanced but not perfect. Some of my own programs are 2 or 3 times slower doing CPU stuff under virtualization than under the raw machine.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by lostapathy on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:39PM (#18132009)
Unless ... you want to share a filesystem between the windows host and the vbox guest. In which case performance is god awful.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by e12e on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:00PM (#18133629)
From host to guest network filesytems (cifs/samba) should be OK?
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by lostapathy on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @04:07PM (#18134333)
Depends what you're doing, honestly. Some software won't tolerate running off a network mount at all for various reasons, if so you're sunk.

Some is just slow because it's inefficient. It's been a while since I had to resort to this, but accessing a big svn checkout over cifs is so slow as to be useless.

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by throwaway2048 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:27PM (#18131866)
anything involving the GPU (including desktop environment compositing) is dreadfully slow in a VM.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by darzu on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:31PM (#18131913)
Really? Did you check the "Enable 3D acceleration" checkbox in Virtual Box?
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by vetinari on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:11PM (#18132377)
Try running a live distribution on bare metal. The performance difference is night and day.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by nine_k on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:51PM (#18132171)
I did, and it helped the speed.

But is was plenty buggy, so much that I had to switch it off.

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by throwaway2048 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:47PM (#18132126)
Its buggy, extremely feature limited, and slow.
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