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    Linux in VM for everyday office and internet

    Hi Gilbert, thank you for your advice. I am going to be travelling for a few days, starting tomorrow, but I managed to install Linux Mint MATE today and get a quick look. I like it a lot! But the best thing is, the resolution problem is solved in VirtualBox for all Linux distributions I have...
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    Linux in VM for everyday office and internet

    My original VM was on Hyper-V, as mentioned in my original post. It was on a RAID1 but moving it to an SSD didn’t make the sluggish Desktop GUI feel any more responsive. My PC has 16GB RAM, I assign 4 to each VM, running only one at a time. Additionally, I also tried CentOS 8.1 and Ubuntu...
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    Linux in VM for everyday office and internet

    Thanks. I didn't know about the xorg drv but found out it was already installed. Sure the Host has its proper GPU driver. So no room for improvement there... It actually has two GPUs, GeForceRTX 2080 and the onboard Intel Graphics 4600 of my i7 4790 GPU. But there are no settings in Hyper-V to...
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    Linux in VM for everyday office and internet

    Hi, thanks for your reply. Which combination of a virtualisation Platform and Linux distribution can you recommend for easy everyday use? -I have virtualisation enabled in BIOS. -"xorg-x11-drv-vmware" seems to be for wmware, right? hyperv-daemons was already installed, when I tried, so I...
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    Linux in VM for everyday office and internet

    Has anyone ever actually done this successfully (see title)? If yes, which Linux distribution and virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware, Virtual Box) did you use? Office and Internet should be no problem with Firefox and libre office but I can’t reach a state that is actually fun to work with every...
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