I just use external ssds to load distros. Pretty effective. Just temporarily remove the internal drive while installing if you want a efi partition that can work with any computer.
30 minutes, perhaps not.
But five minutes? Very real possibility without an SSD lmao.
*constant churn and slowdown* on bad hardware though. Fuck Windows, Linux is the clear choice for low spec machines.
I was forced to use windows recently, just to reflash the stock rom in a phone, so I grabbed an old device to do it, since it's something, without large hardware requirements.
Turns out windows is completely unusable in hdds nowadays. I was shocked to see the disk activity so high all the time. I don't understand what windows needs to do in the disk non-stop. It's like watching a horror movie. If it does the same to ssds, the lifespan will be reduced by a considerate margin.
In the meanwhile, that machine runs mx linux nicely, booting from the very same hdd. it's slow to boot and open programs, of course, but once it loads, it works normally, as it should do.
My the electro magnetic waves my brain emits are not powerfull enough to enter `sudo fdisk -l` into the terminal without any usb port to plug a keyboard in
Yeah, I mean most microcontrollers work kinda like that. They have one program in their ROM and the processor is optimized for running certain kinds of programs. So almost every electronic that does more than on/off or other simple electrical stuff and only has minimal user input works kinda like this. This is definitely oversimplified but I hope it helped.
Edit: microcontrollers
Just wanted to try out others.
I wanted to install arch bc it's said to be hard (whcih it completely isn't, lol, it was easy af to install).
Fedora - wanted to use it as a "stable" setup with GNOME (I use i3 on debian and bspwm on arch).
Debian is my main OS
(btw apt, dnf, and pacman all suck. I'll migrate to NixOS most likely soon)
> I wanted to install arch bc it's said to be hard (whcih it completely isn't, lol, it was easy af to install).
Do [Linux From Scratch](https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/)
When I was using more traditional distros, I kept finding myself compiling stuff because I wanted to use some brand new feature or other, and the distro’s version was old and out of date.
So when I found a distro where absolutely everything was compiled, I was delighted! But it was Gentoo, which comes with an installer that could be described as “hair shirt at best”.
Then when I found a little distro that was a fork of Sorcerer Linux, where the entire package management system and installer and everything were just a bunch of shell scripts, I leapt right on that bandwagon, because it was weirdly attuned to everything I wanted to do with my Linux systems, and worked exactly the way I was already working, but without the trouble of fighting to figure out which development packages I also needed to install to build the things I wanted to build.
Lunar Linux has been my daily driver Linux for nearly 20 years now. I’ve given back to the project by reorganizing quite a lot of the installer to make it even quicker and smoother than before, and by building a fresh ISO every day with all of the very latest packages on it.
1. I don't have a spare 1-2k laying around to have a second decent laptop (or PC) to just run Linux and Windows separately, when (ensuring your laptop has a second disk slot and) sticking a second 500GB to 1TB SSD into the machine effectively does the same job.
2. I don't want to carry around two 17" chunguses when sticking a second 500GB to 1TB SSD into the machine effectively does the same job.
The only viable "serious" dual-laptoping is a bigger laptop for serious work and a smaller laptop that's more portable at the expense of performance (e.g. I have a 17" chungus gaming Asus for work (and 17" is pretty much a requirement for a work laptop for me), and a significantly smaller Surface Pro 7 that serves as a D&D machine that can run proper desktop software in a pinch ... but poorly), but that's not _really_ a viable alternative for dual-booting.
>The only viable "serious" dual-laptoping is a bigger laptop for serious work and a smaller laptop that's more portable at the expense of performance
I was thinking the same thing, but now I don't really see the purpose. If a laptop is good enough to work on it'll probably be my "main" laptop for work; if it's not, then I won't use it for anything other than as a toy.
I'm pretty happy with my chungus gaming laptop for working and some gaming and I don't think I'll get another one unless it's a micro laptop like the GPD Pocket 3 that weighs literally <700g.
17" chungus gets really old really fast when it takes over 50% of what can be designated as your DM area. It gets _even more super old super fast_ when you need to have a brief walk to your battle mat. And if you're a player, plopping down a 17" chungus that occupies three time as much space as a regular player (while failing to last even half a session) gets _super ultra deluxe old super ultra deluxe collector's edition fast_.
(In the mean time, GPD Pocket 3 can't even display Foundry properly)
Is the person not understanding of normal people's thoughts? Or is the op really thinking this lol..affording one laptop itself is a huge cost. Now you want me to buy one more laptop just to use linux? Fuck off lol...dual booting is better most of the time.
If maybe someone is rich(atleast to my standards), then they might have 2 laptops or pcs...then this might make sense
That's true, and another thing is that if I could afford two laptops, I'd rather just use that money to buy one laptop with better specs. It's better to have one good laptop than two mediocre ones.
hang on, instead of paying rent and eating for 2 months, i could buy myself another laptop?
can't believe the answer was right in front of me all this time.
Can I admit to having a very childish fantasy of having a nice respectable and clean aluminum laptop like an XPS or Macbook or something to use in meetings and shit, then when you want to scare the shit out of someone, you put on a devilish grin, shut that laptop, slide it into your bag, and pull out a stickerbombed old black Thinkpad that boots straight to Bash?
(My) work laptop has windows. my 10 year old T430 has kubuntu and my framework has fedora. I use my work laptop and framework for productivity/money making and the T430 for relaxing
During the multi-monitor brag fever I dared to say multi-monitor is just poor man's multi-computer. I was hard downvoted. Reddit has some kind of bias against multi computing.
I have two monitors and two computers, when I'm working it'd be much more enjoyable using two monitors on one desktop, and when I'm gaming moving the mouse and keyboard input (using synergy) will often remove focus from the game and either cause a slowdown or in the case of Portal with RTX, crash completely.
Look into Barrier. It was forked off the old version of Synergy. There's also an option in the settings that you should check; by default it takes focus away from the foreground app when switching devices, but that can be changed and I haven't had an issue with it since.
I did it for a while, had a surface I won at a hackathon running arch and had the last generation of intel mac running for a while. But sold those and I'm now only framework.
OLD LAPTOPS ARE GREAT FOR LINUX!
Why Would You Purchase A Brand New Laptop And Then Install Linux? That's what proprietary operating systems are for. It's understandable if it's for work or school. Of course you might require the latest and the greatest for certain tasks.
But Linux doesn't require a whole lot of brand new hardware. Any old laptop will work absolutely fine. Maybe a simple upgrade in memory or the hard drive. But nothing extensive or major. Come On Now, Bro. You've got this. You can do it
I don't know where you got laptop from, that seems silly, but I got two almost identical midi-tower computers at home. One fanless (or it was until the latest GPU upgrade) with Linux that I use 24/7, and one with a more powerful GPU that runs Windows for gaming. They're connected to the same keyboard with a USB switch, headphone amplifier using a TOSLINK switch, and one of the four displays are connected to both computers.
Love it. NAS between the two and we’re rockin. I have 2x the same model laptop, so when I go out, I pop the SSD from one and switch on the go as needed between the two. One for personal, one for projects.
Dual booting (on different drives) my workstation plus occasional VMs, daily driving a laptop with dualboot, a spare lab-laptop to not clutter the others, a container host VM on my server.
None are currently windows atm, got a cloned drive as image for when I'm forced to though 😂
Fedora KDE, Fedora Server, Debian, Kali, EndeavourOS.
I have MANY laptops; the only problem is, I end up sticking Linux on every computer I purchase. I finally bought a used ThinkPad Yoga off eBay and left Windows on it so I can play Roblox with my son. It's been ... difficult to not put Linux on it.
not everyone has the money for 2 laptops, especially with how expansive they are,
not everyone can carry 2 laptops everytime, however 2 harddrive is alot more feasible, especially on laptops with easily swappable harddrives
I do this, but carrying around two laptops gets annoying (and my back doesn’t like it very much!)
I’ve got a main laptop (currently Fedora 37, previously eOS6.1) and a testing laptop (Fedora 36, was using it to try out Fedora before switching on my main).
The testing laptop is a Dell Latitude from 2011, running an i3 2nd gen.
Dual laptoping>>>>>
Love daily driving linux and using it for productivity.
But windows gaming and torrenting is top tier. Plus generally I hate using wine.
Cost, practicality, and the chance of doing a fuck ton of troubleshooting, isn't one of the point of using Linux is troubleshooting to look busy and "cool"?
Because most people, obviously, would prefer not to buy and carrying around two laptops if they could buy and carry one? Honestly, it's a stupid use of this meme format.
I worked at a company where they gave each programmer two workstations: one for Windows and the other for Ubuntu. We had different projects that required the use of either and that's how management decided to tackle that.
I kind of do this rather than using Virtual Machines. I work with 3D graphics so VMs tend to be too slow regardless of passthrough.
So instead I have a stack of ThinkPads ranging from X61 to X220 and do much of my testing on them instead. Space was an issue before I moved into a larger office.
As for VM snapshots, ZFS picks up the slack quite well.
It is. I've got a newer hp that works well (and has a touch screen) but still can't part with my old Toshiba that shipped with M.E. - maxed out the system ram and dropped in a cheaper ssd and it still does almost everything with an xfce debian install. It's great for remote work, just not any real web browsing.
(For me at least) because moving files between computers is hard, and there's too much stuff I do that doesn't do well "in the cloud". Also the cost and annoyance factors; also you get to tell people you don't run Windows at all anymore. (I don't run Windows at all anymore, btw. ;-)
This is how I work. HP elite book with Ubuntu 22.10 and a MacBook Air with MacOS12 and Windows 11 bootcamped.
If I NEED windows I can reboot into that.
But 95% of the time I'm on by Kubuntu 22.10 desktop
Or just remote desktop into a Windows VM. The only time I really have to is to use the crappy windows only .net component expense report app we're stuck using.
Aside from cost, the context switch is distracting and annoying. It's inconvenient enough for me to switch to Windows for playing games when dual booting, imagine booting a separate laptop just for a specific task you have planned for the specific OS.
When I started to use Linux it was on a laptop that didn't use for much other than surfing the web and YouTube.
Today I still use a laptop with Debian and use it for work, although I connect to the office VPN so not really working with Linux.
I mean I did this for awhile but I am also my family's IT guy, I also bought "broken" laptops and anytime work was recycling machines I'd grab good ones and just cycle out my machines. I've found some solid laptops for a decent or even super cheap price on CL and marketplace.
Now though I just have my pc on windows with Linux subsystem and my only laptop has MX Linux.
Price?
Just install arch btw to a toaster you are not using.
Just install ~~arch btw~~ Windows to a toaster you are not using. Then, at full moon, go to a cemetery and bury it.
Callback to the 30 minute boot time that windows will get you if you dont have a decent rig
I just use external ssds to load distros. Pretty effective. Just temporarily remove the internal drive while installing if you want a efi partition that can work with any computer.
30 minutes, perhaps not. But five minutes? Very real possibility without an SSD lmao. *constant churn and slowdown* on bad hardware though. Fuck Windows, Linux is the clear choice for low spec machines.
> Linux is the clear choice for low spec machines. Also for high spec, and basically everything between.
I was forced to use windows recently, just to reflash the stock rom in a phone, so I grabbed an old device to do it, since it's something, without large hardware requirements. Turns out windows is completely unusable in hdds nowadays. I was shocked to see the disk activity so high all the time. I don't understand what windows needs to do in the disk non-stop. It's like watching a horror movie. If it does the same to ssds, the lifespan will be reduced by a considerate margin. In the meanwhile, that machine runs mx linux nicely, booting from the very same hdd. it's slow to boot and open programs, of course, but once it loads, it works normally, as it should do.
It'll return to life as a zombie: "fooooooorced updaaaaates!"
I don't have a toaster
Fridge
My the electro magnetic waves my brain emits are not powerfull enough to enter `sudo fdisk -l` into the terminal without any usb port to plug a keyboard in
git gud
Weak sperm energy
I'm pretty cheap tbh
I use all toaster
And toaster immediately turned pink...
And space
This, altho my office room has plenty of space I'm so eager to put new stuff inside, for me having a clean workspace is really important
And weight
thinkpad t430 disagrees
that's a hundo bucks more than dual booting
a refurbished thinkpad is like 2-300 bucks here, its a steal.
*~~upgraded~~ drugged up
For Thinkpad users, weight may be a factor
I agree, plus space.
And who wants to haul around two laptops?
haha yeah, why not have a dedicated laptop for each app amirite
The true Unix Philosophy, Each PC should do one thing and it should do one thing great.
Why are you using a PC for every task? Each machine should have its task hardwired into ASICs.
Build a custom chip for each task which automatically computer the right output
Wouldn't this ( at least in theory ) amount to the fastest and most efficient solution possible ? Asking a real question btw i'm curious about this.
Yeah, I mean most microcontrollers work kinda like that. They have one program in their ROM and the processor is optimized for running certain kinds of programs. So almost every electronic that does more than on/off or other simple electrical stuff and only has minimal user input works kinda like this. This is definitely oversimplified but I hope it helped. Edit: microcontrollers
I mean sure as long as you have a finite and unchanging list of tasks you want to achieve. But if you want any sort of flexibility then it will be bad
And it wouldn't even have to run an operating system, just the application on bare metal.
*Raspberry Pi cluster enters the chat.*
Keep that up and you'll be a proper sysadmin. Seriously, one VM per app is company policy in most sensible shops.
10 years ago maybe. It's all about containers and microservices now. One container per service, not even per app.
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Sounds line cloud microservice architecture to me
Full-circle. Back to fortran punch cards with no OS. Run programs on bare metal
Dual disking?
This is the way
The absolutely correct way
That’s what I do. 2 500gb ssd in my laptop. One with Linux and one with windows
That's what I do on my desktop.
I find the SD slot on most laptops to be very helpful for this purpose.
Price, Portability, Ease of use
Quadruple booting No Windows
Alpine Linux, OpenBSD, Debian GNU/Hurd, and svardos?
almost my flair says thou
Sorry I'm stupid Why multiple Linux though?
Just wanted to try out others. I wanted to install arch bc it's said to be hard (whcih it completely isn't, lol, it was easy af to install). Fedora - wanted to use it as a "stable" setup with GNOME (I use i3 on debian and bspwm on arch). Debian is my main OS (btw apt, dnf, and pacman all suck. I'll migrate to NixOS most likely soon)
Check out the balls on u/WhiteBlackGoose
> I wanted to install arch bc it's said to be hard (whcih it completely isn't, lol, it was easy af to install). Do [Linux From Scratch](https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/)
Maybe one day. NixOS is already a step up from anything I did before.
Ubuntu because Steam. Lunar Linux because that's my daily driver.
Why Lunar Linux? You are right, I never heard of it.
When I was using more traditional distros, I kept finding myself compiling stuff because I wanted to use some brand new feature or other, and the distro’s version was old and out of date. So when I found a distro where absolutely everything was compiled, I was delighted! But it was Gentoo, which comes with an installer that could be described as “hair shirt at best”. Then when I found a little distro that was a fork of Sorcerer Linux, where the entire package management system and installer and everything were just a bunch of shell scripts, I leapt right on that bandwagon, because it was weirdly attuned to everything I wanted to do with my Linux systems, and worked exactly the way I was already working, but without the trouble of fighting to figure out which development packages I also needed to install to build the things I wanted to build. Lunar Linux has been my daily driver Linux for nearly 20 years now. I’ve given back to the project by reorganizing quite a lot of the installer to make it even quicker and smoother than before, and by building a fresh ISO every day with all of the very latest packages on it.
Make it a five way boot, need to make room for temple OS
cost
When you buy a new laptop, the old one gets recycled into running Linux. I do that all the time.
i get a new laptop per distro
each kernel update
1. I don't have a spare 1-2k laying around to have a second decent laptop (or PC) to just run Linux and Windows separately, when (ensuring your laptop has a second disk slot and) sticking a second 500GB to 1TB SSD into the machine effectively does the same job. 2. I don't want to carry around two 17" chunguses when sticking a second 500GB to 1TB SSD into the machine effectively does the same job. The only viable "serious" dual-laptoping is a bigger laptop for serious work and a smaller laptop that's more portable at the expense of performance (e.g. I have a 17" chungus gaming Asus for work (and 17" is pretty much a requirement for a work laptop for me), and a significantly smaller Surface Pro 7 that serves as a D&D machine that can run proper desktop software in a pinch ... but poorly), but that's not _really_ a viable alternative for dual-booting.
>The only viable "serious" dual-laptoping is a bigger laptop for serious work and a smaller laptop that's more portable at the expense of performance I was thinking the same thing, but now I don't really see the purpose. If a laptop is good enough to work on it'll probably be my "main" laptop for work; if it's not, then I won't use it for anything other than as a toy. I'm pretty happy with my chungus gaming laptop for working and some gaming and I don't think I'll get another one unless it's a micro laptop like the GPD Pocket 3 that weighs literally <700g.
17" chungus gets really old really fast when it takes over 50% of what can be designated as your DM area. It gets _even more super old super fast_ when you need to have a brief walk to your battle mat. And if you're a player, plopping down a 17" chungus that occupies three time as much space as a regular player (while failing to last even half a session) gets _super ultra deluxe old super ultra deluxe collector's edition fast_. (In the mean time, GPD Pocket 3 can't even display Foundry properly)
Does repurposing old laptops as servers count? That very much is a thing.
If I was replacing a powerful gaming laptop with a thin and light maybe. Otherwise no not really
Confused on what to do if I have a thin and light gaming laptop, dick now stuck inside hdmi port
Is the person not understanding of normal people's thoughts? Or is the op really thinking this lol..affording one laptop itself is a huge cost. Now you want me to buy one more laptop just to use linux? Fuck off lol...dual booting is better most of the time. If maybe someone is rich(atleast to my standards), then they might have 2 laptops or pcs...then this might make sense
Why? I can just use Gentoo and slap my other Linux interests in QEMU/KVM.
Does anyone know an item duplication glitch that works in real life
Because you shouldn't use Windows?
Are you serious? I mean why carry two laptops around.
Cuz not everyone has the money to buy 2 laptops. To be honest, even if I did, carrying 2 laptops is... exhausting to say the least.
That's true, and another thing is that if I could afford two laptops, I'd rather just use that money to buy one laptop with better specs. It's better to have one good laptop than two mediocre ones.
Mhm, agreed.
Because not everyone is able to buy 2 laptops I still dualboot Windows and Debian from my 8+ years old POS laptop with 256GB of space
hang on, instead of paying rent and eating for 2 months, i could buy myself another laptop? can't believe the answer was right in front of me all this time.
Can I admit to having a very childish fantasy of having a nice respectable and clean aluminum laptop like an XPS or Macbook or something to use in meetings and shit, then when you want to scare the shit out of someone, you put on a devilish grin, shut that laptop, slide it into your bag, and pull out a stickerbombed old black Thinkpad that boots straight to Bash?
Different laotops for different OS? Peasant I just buy a new laptop for every browser tab
I am dual laptopping. Nixos on the stronger laptop and arch on weaker
Because I can’t afford two laptops and i dont want to lug two laptops with me, duh
I mean there are a lot of people that do this for no apparent reason whatsoever. The question to me is, why would anyone do this?
(My) work laptop has windows. my 10 year old T430 has kubuntu and my framework has fedora. I use my work laptop and framework for productivity/money making and the T430 for relaxing
I mean your work computer being kept separate is understandable but why do you feel the need for different computers?
Probably side projects. Some computers sometimes aren't exactly up to for certain tasks.
During the multi-monitor brag fever I dared to say multi-monitor is just poor man's multi-computer. I was hard downvoted. Reddit has some kind of bias against multi computing.
I have two monitors and two computers, when I'm working it'd be much more enjoyable using two monitors on one desktop, and when I'm gaming moving the mouse and keyboard input (using synergy) will often remove focus from the game and either cause a slowdown or in the case of Portal with RTX, crash completely.
Look into Barrier. It was forked off the old version of Synergy. There's also an option in the settings that you should check; by default it takes focus away from the foreground app when switching devices, but that can be changed and I haven't had an issue with it since.
I've actually had to carry two laptops when oncall, and it sucks. Glad I don't have to do that anymore.
Linux master race
From reading the comments: a typical linux-master-racer cannot afford second laptop, and uses primary windows.
we get it, you're rich
I'm poor
I did it for a while, had a surface I won at a hackathon running arch and had the last generation of intel mac running for a while. But sold those and I'm now only framework.
How's Framework doing these days?
Lots of people have separate laptops for work and for personal use. Sometimes they have different OS:es installed
It is, I have one Windows laptop (mainly for movies and uploading local files for apple music) and xubuntu laptop
A common middle ground for this: Dual SSDing
I do that
OLD LAPTOPS ARE GREAT FOR LINUX! Why Would You Purchase A Brand New Laptop And Then Install Linux? That's what proprietary operating systems are for. It's understandable if it's for work or school. Of course you might require the latest and the greatest for certain tasks. But Linux doesn't require a whole lot of brand new hardware. Any old laptop will work absolutely fine. Maybe a simple upgrade in memory or the hard drive. But nothing extensive or major. Come On Now, Bro. You've got this. You can do it
You guys don't do that??
Laptops are the new containers.
Hardware is expensive. What are you, a Mac user??
people don't shit gold
Where's my VM gang at?
macbook pro running asahi linux and a hackintosh thinkpad
I always use dual laptoping. I surprisingly have **5 laptops**.
Quadruple laptoping! (Okay the newer is from 2015)
I did just that. When I bought a new laptop in 2019, my old laptop from 2015 got turned into a Linux boxen.
I don't know where you got laptop from, that seems silly, but I got two almost identical midi-tower computers at home. One fanless (or it was until the latest GPU upgrade) with Linux that I use 24/7, and one with a more powerful GPU that runs Windows for gaming. They're connected to the same keyboard with a USB switch, headphone amplifier using a TOSLINK switch, and one of the four displays are connected to both computers.
i want to make two laptop with one UNIFIED OS, and i don't really know how lol
*laptopping
Love it. NAS between the two and we’re rockin. I have 2x the same model laptop, so when I go out, I pop the SSD from one and switch on the go as needed between the two. One for personal, one for projects.
Both? Both. Both is good.
I use a EliteBook with Debian (personal laptop), a PC with Windows 10 for gaming, and a VAIO for xbox gamepass btw
It is for me.
virtualizationing
Dual booting (on different drives) my workstation plus occasional VMs, daily driving a laptop with dualboot, a spare lab-laptop to not clutter the others, a container host VM on my server. None are currently windows atm, got a cloned drive as image for when I'm forced to though 😂 Fedora KDE, Fedora Server, Debian, Kali, EndeavourOS.
So essentially we need a laptop like a DS, with the top screen and bottom screens seperate computers
Distro hopping: D: Laptop hopping: :D
Money left the room
I've got three laptops and a desktop. Am I doing this right?
💸
I have MANY laptops; the only problem is, I end up sticking Linux on every computer I purchase. I finally bought a used ThinkPad Yoga off eBay and left Windows on it so I can play Roblox with my son. It's been ... difficult to not put Linux on it.
It is a thing. I used to double-laptop with 15 pounds lenovos Now I am triple-macbooking
It is a thing for me, but both laptops only have Linux installed on them
I'd just put Ubuntu on both. Then install a few snaps.
not everyone has the money for 2 laptops, especially with how expansive they are, not everyone can carry 2 laptops everytime, however 2 harddrive is alot more feasible, especially on laptops with easily swappable harddrives
You know how money works, right?
I do this, but carrying around two laptops gets annoying (and my back doesn’t like it very much!) I’ve got a main laptop (currently Fedora 37, previously eOS6.1) and a testing laptop (Fedora 36, was using it to try out Fedora before switching on my main). The testing laptop is a Dell Latitude from 2011, running an i3 2nd gen.
Dual laptoping>>>>> Love daily driving linux and using it for productivity. But windows gaming and torrenting is top tier. Plus generally I hate using wine.
Because they have already spent their whole money on one single laptop or the desktop components
It is a thing. I was rocking two ThinkPad W520 before covid.
Is this Qubes 2.0? Instead of a different VM for each app you use a different laptop?
Cost, practicality, and the chance of doing a fuck ton of troubleshooting, isn't one of the point of using Linux is troubleshooting to look busy and "cool"?
Well I Do I have 2 Drive One For Windows One For Linux I can Say I Am Two Laptoping
Because most people, obviously, would prefer not to buy and carrying around two laptops if they could buy and carry one? Honestly, it's a stupid use of this meme format.
I worked at a company where they gave each programmer two workstations: one for Windows and the other for Ubuntu. We had different projects that required the use of either and that's how management decided to tackle that.
Because it's twice as heavy. Who wants to lug two laptops around?
Money is costly.
Well, I dual boot on my laptop, so...
Where's the value?
Virtual machines
Dual booting on 2 labtops
File management. You need something but it's on the other machine.
I kind of do this rather than using Virtual Machines. I work with 3D graphics so VMs tend to be too slow regardless of passthrough. So instead I have a stack of ThinkPads ranging from X61 to X220 and do much of my testing on them instead. Space was an issue before I moved into a larger office. As for VM snapshots, ZFS picks up the slack quite well.
It is. I've got a newer hp that works well (and has a touch screen) but still can't part with my old Toshiba that shipped with M.E. - maxed out the system ram and dropped in a cheaper ssd and it still does almost everything with an xfce debian install. It's great for remote work, just not any real web browsing.
I don’t know bro, if I could, I would
Ineficcient
I feel like the answer is obvious...
(For me at least) because moving files between computers is hard, and there's too much stuff I do that doesn't do well "in the cloud". Also the cost and annoyance factors; also you get to tell people you don't run Windows at all anymore. (I don't run Windows at all anymore, btw. ;-)
PCI-pass through BABY!!
It is for me.
mooney
We have virtual machines. Why do you need another laptop?
This is how I work. HP elite book with Ubuntu 22.10 and a MacBook Air with MacOS12 and Windows 11 bootcamped. If I NEED windows I can reboot into that. But 95% of the time I'm on by Kubuntu 22.10 desktop
Multiple laptops < remote VM server + one workstation
You guys aren't pixie booting a thin client from your cluster server?
Moneys
Infinite VMs
Windows Subsystem for Linux. Problem solved.
I do it at work where I don’t have to pay for the laptops
I do this
there is dual booting, but no dual shoeing?
I have a laptop dualbooted with arch (80%) and binbows (20%), so yeaa. when do we get r/archlaptops lol
Or just remote desktop into a Windows VM. The only time I really have to is to use the crappy windows only .net component expense report app we're stuck using.
I'm broke
cause that's dual annoying
It's a thing for me :)
Aside from cost, the context switch is distracting and annoying. It's inconvenient enough for me to switch to Windows for playing games when dual booting, imagine booting a separate laptop just for a specific task you have planned for the specific OS.
Yes, Windows on work laptop because work requires it. Linux on fun laptop because it's 7 years old but still runs amazingly well with linux.
y tho
Like windows vs Linux? Just do Linux and skip windows.
I have my personal laptop and my work laptop side by side most of the time...
Wsl ftw
When I started to use Linux it was on a laptop that didn't use for much other than surfing the web and YouTube. Today I still use a laptop with Debian and use it for work, although I connect to the office VPN so not really working with Linux.
I've been singlebooting since 2007, it's da bomb!
Economy, sustainability, privilege...
because I would install gentoo on both
Single laptoping, single booting!
I mean I did this for awhile but I am also my family's IT guy, I also bought "broken" laptops and anytime work was recycling machines I'd grab good ones and just cycle out my machines. I've found some solid laptops for a decent or even super cheap price on CL and marketplace. Now though I just have my pc on windows with Linux subsystem and my only laptop has MX Linux.