There will be a performance hit. For most things it is minor (overall ~10%)= .. Having said that, you can run things like CAD in virtual environments jus= t fine. At $WORK we run virtual workstations for several of our mechanical = engineers using VMware. They use SolidWorks remotely and we have some _very= _ complex models. The server running that workload is pretty fast and does = have special graphics cards installed. Cheaper than running a whole set of = physical workstations, though. Your best bet is to give it a try. Take one of your machines, install Linux= on it, and then set up a Windows environment in a VM and take it for a spi= n. As others have mentioned, you absolutely do not need to switch to Linux to = properly use git. There are always tradeoffs when switching tools. -Pete On 6/26/16, 18:14, "Denny Esterline" wrote: What magnitude of performance penalty would you typically expect in a virtual box? The application that would be most problematic for me to move away from windows is our CAD package - which is easily the most resource intense application we use and drives most hardware selection conversations. If we were to virtualize that ... Would I need yet _more_ powerful workstations? -Denny On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Peter Loron wrote: > Some Windows apps can be gotten to work well using Wine. Woth a try. I > generally recommend that folks who need to do things in Windows set up a > Windows VM on their Linux machines. VirtualBox is a free cross platform V= M > tool which works pretty well. > > -Pete > > On 6/25/16, 15:17, "Gordon Williams" of gwilliams@ncf.ca> wrote: > > I also use Linux Mint (since W2000 got too difficult to use). LT Spice, > a windows only program, can be run using Wine. Quite cool. I also use > Eagle and QCad. > > Gordon Williams > > > > > On 16-06-25 03:44 AM, Chris Roper wrote: > >>> Recommendations for getting started (with Linux)? > > If you are moving users from a Windows Environment take a look at Linux > > Mint. > > It is based on the Ubuntu Code base so is well supported and has a nice > > simple Windows Like Interface. > > > > I tried several and settled on Mint. > > > > > >> -- > >> http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > >> View/change your membership options at > >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > >> > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .