I'm abandoning Windows 100%. Windows 11 is severely affecting VM performance on my laptop.
I'm abandoning Windows 100%. Windows 11 is severely affecting VM performance on my laptop.
Yeah, cheers Microsoft. The only thing that was holding me on Windows is the superior support for advanced sound stuff (my laptop uses Realtek with a dolby plugin and on Linux the sound is really tinny and flat). I just trued to spin up a VM on my laptop, VB refuses to work at all and VMWare works but to say its slow is an understatement, systemd takes almost 1 minute to complete and (no joke) I just waited 25 minutes for it to extract a 250MB tarball (on an SSD). The exact same file on my desktop (running Arch using libvirt) takes less than 5 seconds. As a test I fired up an Ubuntu VM I had installed before Win11 released (while on the release branch of WI) and it runs just as slowly, I know it was fine when I installed it so my only conclusion is that RTM 11 made my laptop unusable for VM'ing and since I value VMs over audio quality I'm moving over to Arch ASAP.
Noticing your post suggests something serious. Microsoft has a long track record of promoting empty promises, likely because many in the industry rely heavily on their products and now their services as well. Their latest releases often reflect what a fresh entrant would bring, rather than the polished offerings of an established software or service provider like Microsoft. I hope your situation doesn’t become permanent. Wishing you good luck—consider moving away from Windows if it aligns with your needs in the future.
It’s an alternative you could try, though I don’t think it fits well. It’s even worse than what you can picture. While pulling the tarball, it was moving one line each second. On my desktop it’s so quick you can’t read it. I’m pretty sure it’s running Windows 11, but before I panic, I’ll boot an Arco live USB to see if I can test things. Nothing else has changed since my last VMware session except Windows 11 updated to the latest build, and I have a project named “VMSandbox” that wasn’t running then. This whole VM security issue seems tied to Microsoft. The only reason I stayed with Windows was for audio—my Realtek needs a proprietary Dolby plugin, and without it the sound quality drops significantly. Since I mainly use my laptop for media, good sound is a top priority. I can’t live without VMs. Edit – Actually, I realized something new: I turned on WSL and installed the WSLg beta. I’ll attempt to disable WSL but doubt it will fix this (especially since I don’t have anything installed with WSL ATM).
Check if VBS is turned off on Windows 11 via the provided link.
I think it would be quite a fascinating challenge. I’ll try it later today, thank you.