hey, here's a question for linux people. I know people run stuff in Wine and w/e, but I do in fact have a completely legal copy of Windows 10
How capable are VMs? Would I be able to, say, run Clip Studio in a VM with working tablet support, more or less identical to the native Windows experience? Would that require a massively power PC?
@ShugoWah it depends what you use for VMs
stuff like VMWare (Player) lets you basically steal USB ports from the host system, so tablet drivers act on windows as if you plugged them right in
overall, VMs don't take a ridiculous amount of power to run (because they usually aren't actually emulating anything), but they'll likely take a bit longer to boot than a native system depending on what else you're doing at the time
@thingywott Thank you!
@ShugoWah hey! no prob!
i really liked VMs, so i actually used them a lot both ways!
that said, i actually haven't used a windows 10 vm for an extended period of time, so i don't know how it compares to windows 8 (which ran quite nicely after it started!)
@ShugoWah oh! and graphics acceleration is sometimes kinda tricky
and without that, the interface won't be as fast
so that's a bit of a caveat that can cost a bit of extra effort sometimes