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Lenovo Laptop Love..Not!
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3 earlier comments in the full thread.
The command line version of Ubuntu worked fairly well when I tried it out.
There are now two versions of WSL though, and I haven't tried the later one.
> unfortunately for banking i need windows with USB support, which, as i understand may not be working well inside a virtual machine,
The VirtualBox extensions handle USB fairly well, as far as I know. For business use you need a license though.
But why not use Windows as the host OS and use Linux in the virtual machine? No one says you have to primarily use the host OS.
His machine is already choking while running Windows as the host OS, another OS on top of that would be near impossible, guessing.
Linux in a VM would require the laptop to have sufficient memory. i am currently targeting 8GB, as i found that 4GB is not enough for my day-to-day work. the VM solution might mean that i need more so that i can give 8GB to the VM.
the reverse case would not have this problem, as i can put a windows VM to sleep and free the memory while i do normal work, and i'd only need a few GB when i wake it up. however, that is also subject to testing.
i do believe that WSL would not have this memory problem, but that in fact may not be true. after all, windows is still running and taking up memory, so i might need more than 8GB there too.
so the questions are (my homework to figure this out, and for anyone who likes to play along :-) :
how much memory does windows need as a host, with linux as a VM? how well does linux work as a desktop when running inside a VM?
how much memory does windows need as a host, with linux running in WSL? how well does WSL work as a linux desktop? (does it at all?)
how well does USB work in a windows VM? (meaning: i need to test my particular use case of a bank security token)
is there another option? can i hibernate linux while booting linux? (the short answer is that i actually have this working on an old laptop. it is annoying to switch and have to disable linux while booting windows, but at least i don't loose state on the linux side (it also keeps state on windows, but i care less about that)
greetings, eMBee.
There are two machines at work dual booting Linux and Windows 7. On one host OS, the other one is guest in VirtualBox. The latter forwards very well specified USB peripherals to the guest. Linux as a guest, allowed 4GB RAM (half of total RAM) and all four cores runs nearly as native. Don't expect to play GPU intensive games here. Windows 7 as a guest is more quiet if allowed 2GB RAM instead of four, and two cores instead of four.
How about changing bank for tokenless ones ? LOL ! But not really. AFAIK, tokens are not used in internet banking here (FR).
> forwards very well specified USB peripherals to the guest
this is what worries me. i fear that the banks USB token may not be well specified since it is not a standard peripheral (like a disk, but could be something entirely custom)
games is another issue. not as critical, and the games i like to play are not the newest, so they may work in the VM but we'll see...
greetings, eMBee.
So far my Linux Mint install is running perfectly. Every program I have opened works, surfing the web is awesome in that I can have 10-15+tabs open in my browser and they all load and I have no freezing issues. I have wanted to try out a chromebook in the recent past but after finally getting my love (Linux) installed on my laptop I have no wants or needs anymore. :-)
Scott
About two weeks ago my wonderful Linux Laptop decided not to power up anymore and there is not much I can do about it besides take it to a 'repair' shop and pay more than it is worth to try and fix it. I took it to one and priced it and they won't even tell me how much the final cost might be. The laptop brand new cost roughly $400 and besides, I don't have the money to fix it. I am better off 'saving up' to buy another one if possible.
Without it even turning on I am basically carrying around a paperweight. It just makes me sad that after succeeding at finally getting it the way I want it now it does this. It was given to me so I can't complain that I didn't get "my money's worth" but still, ugh.
Scott
I assume it's dead on both the power supply and battery and that you've tried another power supply, Scott?
1. newegg.com/p/pl?N=100006740%204018&d=thinkpad%20t450&Order=PRICE
or
2. amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-i5-5300U-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B07GCRBLQS
I tried several different power supplies.
Thank you for the links to other laptops. :-)
A second thought is to install either Windows 10 or Linux distro (of your choice) to a 120 or 240 GB Sata 2.5" SSD placed in a SATA to USB 3.1 external case. I like HornetTek Leopard modelHT-223APC. UPC 7 99599 16498 8 Metal case.
You hit F12 , F10, or ESC key and select external USB for boot drive or set BIOS boot drive order USB before internal hard drive. Now carry one computer and one external USB sdd drive.
You might even look at external 128gb USB flash drive for $30.
That is my intention exactly. Once I get another USB Drive I am going to install a Linux distro onto it and make it bootable.
One ancient laptop here (battery long since faded away, so operation is AC-only) stopped booting with the battery inserted. It booted just fine, last I looked, with an empty battery bay. I suggest trying that, if you haven't already, before dismissing the machine as dead.
i still haven't bought a new laptop yet, but in the meantime, someone helpfully pointed out that all the games i like to play have gold status in proton, so i won't be needing windows for any games. only for the bank.
greetings, eMBee.
https://www.protondb.com/ tracks the status of games. gold means they run just fine.
there is a discussion about it on hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25333219
greetings, eMBee.
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