Welp, it’s finally happened. Windows 10 has become so bloated, slow, and spooky that I finally have decided to bite the bullet and set up a VM on my linux Mint partition. Do you have any suggestions for a virtual machine? My PC is a relatively basic mid-range business laptop, 8gb of ram, no GPU, only a few years old. I’m a little concerned about performance impact, as I’ve heard that VMs take more system resources than the OS running natively. Any recommendations of software/configurations that would work best for me?

EDIT for clarity: The games i intend to run are, largely, older non-steam games. i obviously just use proton for all my steam games, but some weird older ones don’t have a steam release/i don’t have the steam version.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    8 months ago

    My suggestion: Don’t.

    As far as I am aware a VM only makes sense for gaming if you have a second GPU. And even then it’s a pain in the arse.

    Use Proton/Wine instead. Steam has that integrated so that most games just work out of the box.

    Be aware, most modern games won’t run well or at all if you only have integrated graphics.