• IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’d only use windows for gaming really, wouldn’t running it in a VM be less optimal in that vase? In terms of performance of windows and playing fames within the VM.

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        2 months ago

        Really depends on the virtualization technology, hardware, configuration and game. Not a gamer myself.

        Gaming on linux has come a long way in recent years though, in no small part thanks to Steam.

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      2 months ago

      Do you think I can program on a Windows VM? Do you work with it? I still use Windows because I need my programs to work on Windows (had my programs built on Linux fail on Windows Machines before). Do you have experience on this?

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        2 months ago

        That wouldn’t be about the VM but the OS. If the software is built to target linux without care for portability then it’ll fail on windows - you’d have to compile it targetting windows, either using the Visual Studio compiler or MinGW’s gcc, be it native for windows under MSYS2 or using a cross-compiler variant.