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Re:If you must run Windows 10 by switch007 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:49AM (#20817487)
WSL2 is going to cement this episode of Embrace, extend and extinguish, in part as it requires Hyper-V and therefore prevents the use of VirtualBox, VMware Workstation/Player etc. The freedoms of Linux (such as not having a boot loader assume it's the only OS on the disk) will be forgotten as people take the easy path of running WSL2 on the OS their computer came with. Is this a sufficiently-modern criticsm for you?

A blog post from late 2018, which references things like an October 2018 Windows update, counts very much as a modern experience with Windows. I don't think it's fair to try to smear the author in that way.

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Re:If you must run Windows 10 by jedieaston on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:16AM (#20818649)
VirtualBox can use the Hyper-V/Windows Hypervisor API to create full speed VMs even when Hyper-V is active.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#hyperv-support

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Re:If you must run Windows 10 by switch007 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:29AM (#20820749)
I did not know that. However, a couple of caveats (from your link):

> This is an experimental feature

> When using this feature, you might experience significant Oracle VM VirtualBox performance degradation on some host systems.

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Re:If you must run Windows 10 by jodrellblank on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:06AM (#20820502)
> this episode of Embrace, extend and extinguish

Hyper-V is over ten years old. If it hasn't killed VirtualBox in that time, Microsoft offering a convenient Ubuntu VM is not going to be the death knell, trapping people who don't want to use Hyper-V in a nightmare situation of "having a removable Linux VM".

> The freedoms of Linux (such as not having a boot loader assume it's the only OS on the disk) will be forgotten

I've never noticed this as a complaint about developers using macOS for its Unix underpinnings, that they and Apple are not giving sufficient weight to the importance of a Linux bootloader.

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