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.
Yes I did turn 3D acceleration on, but I’m indeed running 7.0. I will try downgrading it to 6.1… Thanks.
Also turn off Hyper-V if using Virtual box. If you check out the documentation there’s some warnings about possible poor performance when Hyper-V is enabled.
VirtualBox is best, it works actually pretty well.
Also consider wsl, it’s absolutely not linux, but it might handle your minimal use case.
WSL2 is actually Linux.
Not an absolute 1:1 Linux replacement as far as experience goes…
Linux userspace on nt kernel (with Linux/posix personality enabled).
That’s WSL1. WSL2 is Linux.
You are correct, it’s a vm, my bad.