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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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