On 10/05/2018 06:18 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/04/2018 05:58 PM, George from the tribe wrote:
Of course running everything in the vm is slower than running things directly, but this will enable me to do what I want to do when I have to be in windows.
Move everything to SSD and as long as you aren't trying to run something like Plasma or Gnome3, you won't notice any difference at all. I have Win7 and 15 virtualized on a 42.3 install on SSD, and both boot within 12 seconds and the desktops are instantaneous. I wouldn't have believed it until I tried it. The 42.3 host will boot from cold-start to full KDE3 desktop in 11 seconds and change.
Cost wise you pay a bit more for less storage, but I'll gladly give up my old 1T platters for 512G (or 256G) nand-3d SSD any day.
That's a good idea. I have put in an SSD on my small laptop (that I labeled laptop 2 below) and had that experience until I installed Leap 15. Something about the install of Leap 15 made the startup and shutdown process much slower. It sort of hangs for awhile, but I haven't had time to troubleshoot it yet. I hope to get to that problem soon. I might also note that I just saw on Amazon that you can purchase a 1TB internal laptop SSD for around $150. So this looks like a really good option. It could be a complete game changer. I saw that the windows people are having trouble with the latest microsoft update - some people have had it erase all their data from anything that wasn't in onedrive. The only reason I ever boot into windows is only for this one program that I just can't get to run well on the linux side, out of slowness. If the SSD made the difference there, I could forego windows completely. -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: TW | Plasma 5.13 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 15.0 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org