Thank you! Guess I'll be steering clear of MSI. I've been using Asrock and Asus for the most part forever and haven't run into that...yet. 😬🤞

Sorry to hear that! I don't think I've ever had an issue with that. What hardware so the rest of us can avoid it?

Name calling. Nice. 😆 Thanks for the chuckle.

You posted publicly. It's called SOCIAL media. Don't want responses to what you post go start a blog with comments turned off. Or do that here I think they allow that. 🤷

So bad at games the largest game platform in the world Steam is running it on their own hardware.

You're not wrong about the scale making it a target though but you kind of catch yourself in a catch 22 since not using Linux because it's a target would mean running what, the current bigger targets?

Linux is pretty good. It's all about choice though, so that's kind of tough for a lot of people. You can try it out without messing up your current computer by running it off a USB before installing it anywhere. Try a bunch of versions. It's called "distro hopping".

If the VM envrionment is based on Linux KVM the virtio drivers are here github.com/virtio-win/v...

Parrallels, VMware, Virtualbox etc. will have their own documented package of a version of this. Otherwise someone is just being stingy with the VM hardware settings.

VMs shouldn't run poorly unless they're under sized and/or someone has failed to install the VM enablement drivers to get things like GPU acceleration etc into the environment. The different VM platforms usually provide a "client package" with the drivers for windows.

Oh yeah, backup your data before doing anything. Just to be safe. Dual booting requires some low level shuffling of things on the computer and things can certainly go wrong.

Yup, the "live" boot from a usb doesn't touch any data on the internal drive. Try as many as you like. The live environment is also typically the installer. So when you're ready to go for it it's just a few additional clicks.

Having said that booting things off a USB is always going to be slower than a regular internal drive. So don't let "performance" when testing really be a concern. You just want to see how it looks and is laid out. Installed on the regular drive Linux is typically much faster than windows.

The beauty of Linux is choice. Distro hopping is common since software is free and can be booted and tried from a USB drive easily. I would recommend trying several distros first. That'll do two things, let you see if your hardware all works right, and let you decide what you like.

So is pressing a button on a synth music creation? Midi arrangement? Not quite sure where that hair should be split. Maybe we need to approach this as a spectrum. Music is being made, more so by the machine, and the human is deciding if it's good or not. Like a music producer? Do they "make music"?

Please stop using discord for "community". It's not indexable, searchable on/from the internet. It's a closed silo where information goes to die. Thanks for considering the request.

It sits right among the common crowd on the steam hardware survey. They're clearly targeting common folk. I'd lay money they straddle the PS5. $475-$499 512gb and something like $600-650 for the 2tb.