I'm ditching Windows 100%, Win 11 has crippled VM performance on my laptop

[Master Disaster]

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.

[Video Beagle]

sticking with win 10 not an option?

[Akolyte]

Seeing you posting this, it must be really bad. 

 

Microsoft has a long history of just talking hot air probably because they know that a significant portion of the industry is dependant on their software and now services too. 

 

A lot of their recent products and developments are things I'd expect from a new player to the scene, not a mature and established software/services vendor like Microsoft. 

 

Hopefully whatever happened to your system doesn't stay permanent. 

 

Best of luck, and I think, depending on your use-cases for your PC - ditching Windows might be beneficial in the long term.  Especially if it means you aren't slung around by Microsoft. 

[Master Disaster]

22 minutes ago, Video Beagle said:

sticking with win 10 not an option?

Sure, its an option, just not one I consider suitable

 

14 minutes ago, Akolyte said:

Seeing you posting this, it must be really bad. 

It is worse that you can imagine, whilst extracting the tarball it was scrolling at a rate of 1 line per second. On my desktop it goes so fast you cannot even read it.

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Microsoft has a long history of just talking hot air probably because they know that a significant portion of the industry is dependant on their software and now services too. 

 

A lot of their recent products and developments are things I'd expect from a new player to the scene, not a mature and established software/services vendor like Microsoft. 

 

Hopefully whatever happened to your system doesn't stay permanent. 

I'm almost entirely sure it is Win 11 but before I go nuclear I'll fire up an Arco live USB and test a few things out. Nothing else has changed since I last used VMWare other than Win 11 updated to the release build and I have a task called something like "VMSandbox" that was not running before. Its this whole VM Security thing MS implemented I reckon.

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Best of luck, and I think, depending on your use-cases for your PC - ditching Windows might be beneficial in the long term.  Especially if it means you aren't slung around by Microsoft. 

Well the only reason I stuck to Windows was because of audio, my Realtek uses come proprietary Dolby plugin and without it running the sound is pretty bad. Since I mostly use my laptop for media consumption I considered good sound to be pretty high priority. I cannot live without VMs though.

 

Edit - Actually, now that I think about it, something else did change. I enabled WSL and installed the WSLg beta. I'll try turning WSL off but I doubt that would cause this behaviour (especially since I don't have anything installed with WSL ATM).

[Ankh Tech]

4 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Well the only reason I stuck to Windows was because of audio, my Realtek uses come proprietary Dolby plugin and without it running the sound is pretty bad. Since I mostly use my laptop for media consumption I considered good sound to be pretty high priority. I cannot live without VMs though.

In the most recent wan show:

He addressed how the audio has issues in linux, and said he will adress that in the video, maybe that'll help, and you can use that to fix the audio

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, Ankh Tech said:

In the most recent wan show:

He addressed how the audio has issues in linux, and said he will adress that in the video, maybe that'll help, and you can use that to fix the audio

I'll be sure to watch, if anybody can solve these issues it will be Anthony... Thanks  

[Droidbot]

have you disabled vbs?

 

https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-vbs-disable/

 

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

have you disabled vbs?

 

https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-vbs-disable/

 

I have not but that would be a very interesting test. I'll do that later today, thanks.

[xAcid9]

4 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

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).

Try EasyEffects a.k.a PulseEffect.