Would it be worth it to use a virtual machine
For stuff I can only do on Windows? Like some games and applications that are only on Windows. My current machine really isn't that great, however, and I've never used a virtual machine before, so I wanna know if it would be worth it to try.
Running Linux Mint 16, 1 GHz CPU, 1.6 GB RAM, if it matters.
February 25, 2014
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more OS = more lag
No since you're pretty much running 2 operating systems at once making it super laggy. You want a really good system if you want to run VMs.
Wine isn't that great still I think. Maybe in 20 years it will be.
Maplestory doesn't run on VMs, but if you're not going to play Maple, VMs are still really slow..
Running a virtual machine is actually more laggy than running it normally. It'll have to run the VM then run Windows on top of that.
I have this old laptop set to dual boot Puppy Linux and Windows XP. Works well.
VMs will work best when good specs. It basically runs an OS within a window on your normal OS. So say MAC with a Windows 8 window. This eliminates that restart process.