I by now have wasted far too much time trying to setup a VM on my decently decked out machine (i5 13600KF, RTX 3080, 32GB DDR5, Win11 on a 4K Display) to run some kind of Linux in there that runs perfectly smooth - mostly for Development purposes.
So far I have tried all 3 major vm hosting softwares for windows (VMWare, Hyper V and Virtual Box) along side various (admittedly beginner friendly) distros (Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Mint, …) yet I have not once gotten a System up and running with smooth animations and no notable input latency. Also I have of course turned on Hardware virtualization in my bios and benchmarks usually show that CPU performance seems to be where I expect it.
So I wanna ask the community what setup they are using under windows that just runs any kind of Linux smoothly and what point I may be missing.
Also installing Linux natively is not really an option for me since I want to be able to run Multiplayer games and I still consider myself a Linux beginner and don’t wanna commit to install Linux directly on my host machine yet.
You can use Linux in Dual boot, then you can select to start Linux or Windows if you want play. Alternatively make a life USB with a Linux distro and then you can use Linux, booting from the USB. Using Linux in VM isn’t a good Idea, more if you don’t have a lot of RAM, because then are working 2 SO at the same time.
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32 GB should be plenty of RAM for this scenario.
Well, even so, it is preferable to use dual boot, or a life distro on a pen drive. You can also use this distro, Q4OS, it has an own windows installer with several options, you can install it like an normal app and also desinstalar it. https://q4os.org