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Re:Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads by gettodachoppa on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:59AM (#37220215)
I always forget there's people who do software development on something other than Linux.

I mean I use Windows too (my laptop has poor Linux support, plus Proton wasn't a thing when I bought it so I went for something which is guaranteed to run games well). But I do all my development in a Linux VM in Virtualbox. If you have an SSD, performance is indistinguishable from native.

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Re:Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads by mcpeepants on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @08:39AM (#37221835)
> If you have an SSD, performance is indistinguishable from native.

In my experience this is very much not the case. Running a graphical linux desktop in a VM on beefy hardware still introduces noticeable keypress latency for me, as an example.

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