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Just bought a new laptop and I am deciding between dual-boot and vm with windows, most of my dev is .Net Core or Java or web, but sometimes I require Visual Studio, so.

What do you think is a better option?

@thmnmlst How much RAM do you consider enough for vm?

I'd go for a VM, but assign it as much memory as you can safely do so. If you're only using Windows for Visual Studio, its not really necessary to go dual-boot, especially if it requires shutting down your entire development environment just to do some quick C# fiddle

Of course, this depends on how capable your machine is

@monr0e i7-6700hq, 16GiB RAM

@thmnmlst Same here, but with 16 GiB we have ran vs and Android Studio and chrome at the same time

Running Windows in Fusion and allocated 8GB for the VM and VS works absolutely fine. If you add too many shit extensions it will usually slow down so wouldn't suggest that. I'm using a macbook pro with an i5 and 16gb of ram.

I run a windows 10 VM with visual studio 2015 in it, 100GB disk, 4GB RAM, it works

Yeah, that setup will do fine. Stick 10GB on your VM at the most, and just close anything resource intensive that's running on the host.

@thmnmlst vs opening times are awful but IMO it's more about SSD > > HDD than having more RAM.
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With 16GiB of ram and an ssd you'll be more than good to go using a vm. Don't worry ;)

Which laptop btw?

@coookie Acer Aspire

Would probably go with a dual boot. Unless you got mad soecs

Good, then it's settled, I'll buy a MacBook ... Jk Virtual machine then.

64gb of ram!!!! Wow.
I have implemented and tuned machine learning algorithms to run massive datasets. Even then the server I ran it on had 32gb of ram. Noway my dev machine would need that ...

64 GB!!???!!!!

@thmnmlst I have ran Android Studio and Visual Studio ate the same time and debugging in both with 4Gb it was really slow, but it worked. Probably it's your processor.

@thmnmlst I get you men, the one I had was from work, mine was a Pentium 4 desktop with 512mb ram, I had to stay at school in order to work.

@jpichardo I went the dual boot route. Ended up staying in one environment way more than the other and just ran vms after awhile. Your system should be fine to run vms.

Windows inside Linux (virtual machine)