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0 pointscullenking15y ago0 comments

I'd disagree, but that's because it's way too easy to walk away from the VM when you need to do something and don't want to futz around.

Jump feet first and use Linux as your main OS. If you are doing development work, it can easily surpass Windows, and is comparable (or superior) to OSX as well. Of course, this doesn't apply if you are doing graphic design stuff, however, Windows can live inside a VM for that sort of stuff. If you are doing web dev, you'll need a VM for Vista/Win7 and for XP anyways.

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joubert15y ago

Even if Linux is your main OS, I would still use a VM, because you can reproduce a server environment more closely, isolates that work from your "personal stuff", allows powerful features such as snapshotting, and enables you to simulate multiple servers and/or clients (virtualization) on a single box, when for example playing with a distributed date store.

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