The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP

Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by graphviz on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:40PM (#21457006)

Graphviz was written on Macs and Linux. Its native OSX container was developed by someone now working at Apple. Most of its code is OS independent. Like everyone, we are not thrilled with MacBooks these days (expensive, not great keyboards, useful ports removed, and seeming love-hate relationship with Unix * ) but if you want to run Office and Lightroom, run typical python data science code, what else is there? A colleague tried the Windows Linux system and it kind of works but not well enough for what we're doing. It's the same everywhere.

* Here's a fun exercise: try to dump your iCloud passwords in cleartext so you can scan for potentially compromised passwords on forgotten systems (using shell commands, not a proprietary password manager.) OSX doesn't even generate messages to acknowledge that it's designed to not let you do this.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by zelly on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:36PM (#21457511)

> if you want to run Office and Lightroom, run typical python data science code, what else is there? A colleague tried the Windows Linux system and it kind of works but not well enough for what we're doing

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch

The answer to Office/Adobe/gaming is simply don't do it, get someone else to do it, or get a different job. Your time is better spent on stuff like python data science, which Linux supports better than anything else out there.

If you must, run Windows 10 in a VM. If you're doing heavy duty video editing or Photoshop, get a second GPU just for the Windows 10 VM[1].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by computerex on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:51PM (#21458218)

> The answer to Office/Adobe/gaming is simply don't do it, get someone else to do it, or get a different job.

I am not sure recommending someone to get a different job is a good idea simply because of the choice of their operating system... I'm a huge linux fan, both of my personal laptops have linux and have been using it since 2006. But I still know that realistically it's not the best OS for certain tasks, like gaming. That's why my gaming PC has Windows on it.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by saagarjha on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:25PM (#21459134)

> try to dump your iCloud passwords in cleartext so you can scan for potentially compromised passwords on forgotten systems (using shell commands, not a proprietary password manager.)

Allow me to direct you to the Security APIs, which would make your task a couple lines of code that's as permissive as you'd like it to be: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/1398306-s....

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